ELVELLACEI. 



733 



Totigli, elastic, gelatinous, darlc-brown, or chocolate, almost black, 

 wrinkled, and rough externally ; disc sometimes lacunose ; stem in general 

 blank, almost obsolete, sometimes fasciculate and confluent.— J/. J".^. 



{Fig. 339.) 



2218. 



Bulgaria sazcoides. Fr. " Purplish Bulgaria.'' 



Stylospores — Cgespitose, soft, viscid, flesh-coloured, inclin- 

 ing to purple, at first club-shaped, then compressed, lobed, and 

 plicate. — Tremella sarcoides. Berk. Outl. t. 2,f. 7. Eng. Bot. t. 

 2450. Bolt. 1. 101,/. 2. Btdl ^.499,/. 5. Eng.Fl. y. 2^.217. 



AscoPHORE — C^espitose, polymorphous, rather firm, flesh-red, 

 externally somewhat venose ; disc concave ; asci clavate ; spori- 

 dia oblong-lanceolate, straight, or unequal, with a central nucleus. 

 Fr. S.M. ii.p. 168. Eng. Fl. y.^j. 240. Berk. Outl. t. 18,/. 6. Bolt, 

 t. 101 J. 2. Schceff.t. 323,324:. Hedw.t.l ,f.B. Berk.exs.no. 

 273. Batschf.53. Jacq. Misc.t.22. Bull. 1. 101, f. 2. Fl. Dan. 

 t. 1017,/. 1-2. vars. Coryne sarcoides, Tul. Carp. iii.^?. 190, f. 17, 

 / 1-10. 



On old stumps. [S. Carolina.] 



Dr. Capron undoubtedly traced Tremella sarcoides through its stages to its 

 perfection in this species, almost simultaneously and independently of the 

 researches of M. Tulasne, which produced the same result. The Tremella^ 

 therefore, is an imperfect condition of the BulgaHa. 



Gen. 306. 



AGYRZUIYI, Fr. 



Eeceptacle compact, homo- 

 geneous, waxy, gelatinous when 

 moist, innate, sessile, sphasrical, 

 even, smooth, fructifying all 

 round ; asci fixed. — Berk. Outl.p. 

 375. {Fig. 340.) 



Fig. 340. 

 2219. Agyrium xufum. Pers. " Eeddish Agyrium." 



Gregarious, convex, or spheerical, compact when moist, flesh- 

 coloured, when dry red-brown ; asci ovoid ; sporidia oblong, 

 pellucid. — Eng. Fl. v. p. 220. Fr. S.M. \\.p. 232. Fries, exs. no. 

 280. Grev. t. 232. Corda. Ic. ii./. 128. Stictisrufa, Pers. Ohs.ii, 

 t. 6,/ 6. 



On old dry fir wood. [Up. Carolina.] 



About i line broad, often seated on a whitish spot. It is very probable 

 that this should be classed with lichens rather than fungi. (Fig. 340.) 



