PUNGL 269 



The last order of the kymenium family is that of the 

 Tremellini, or jelly fungi. Here the fruit bearing part 

 surrounds the whole of the plant. 



Upon rails, fencing off water meadows in Wiltshire, we 

 first saw the orange Tremella (T. mesenteric^, Plate 

 XVIII., Jig. 16). It was later in the same season in 

 which we had commenced our collection ; and when Ave 

 saw puckered masses of jelly seeming to ooze from in- 

 equalities in the damp railing, we made sure we had got 

 another kind of fungus. We watched the rails, and as 

 long as the weather continued damp the jelly enlarged ; 

 but it was not sticky to the touch as we expected it to 

 be, a kind of skin covered it, keeping each lobe in shape. 

 The substance was semi-transparent, orange at the base, 

 and gradually growing lighter towards the summit. Shortly 

 afterwards we found a large plant of the Foliate Tremella 

 (T. folcasa) growing in the fork of an old tree at Monk- 

 ton, Deveril. It was a rich claret colour, of an irregular 

 shape ; and was very difficult to secure without destroy- 

 ing it. It seemed as if formed of port -wine jelly. The 

 white Tremella (T. albida) is smaller than either of these, 

 and less lobed. I have found it on branches and rails in 

 damp woods in Kent. 



The Exidia group vary in having the hymenium 

 glandular. 



The glandular Exidia {Plate XVIII, fig. 17.) some- 

 what resembles half a huge mulberry, or half a chequered 

 plum. I found several specimens growing on a dead 

 branch of oak, among dead leaves, in a swampy wood 

 near Richmond, in Yorkshire. The Upper part of the 

 fungus was black, chequered with dark grey ; the under 



