CRYPTOGAMIA. ALG. Tremella. 71 
Tr. Livid; round, tiled. adna'ta, 
Adheres closely by its whole substance’to rocks; has’ the 
appearance of the Agarics which grow on trees, but is nearly 
membranaceous. Linn. swec. 2. 1143. 
Rocks and stones on the sea-shore at low water. 
P. Jan.—Dec. 
Tr. Black brown ;. sitting, roundish, waved. Hups. > arborea. 
Bull, 420-Dill. 10,.15-Hoffm. crypt. 1. 8. 1-Facg. coll. iii, 12. 
2-Fl. dan. 885. 3. ae 25 
_ When fresh nearly transparent, with.a blackish hue, which 
increases as it decays. It is very much wrinkled ; the wrinkles 
when in a state of perfection fringed with fine whitish hairs. 
Mr. Woopw. A membranaceous gente substance, dull 
brown or reddish black, quite black when dry. Flat under- 
neath ; above raised irregularly into veins, and set with black 
tubercle-like dots, Diiu. 54.—Waved and plaited, thick, pulpy, 
jelly-like after rains, never membranaceous ;. destitute of hairs, 
Hatt. hist. 2038. ees ; 
Var. 2. fusca. Semi-transparent, brown. ~ 
Bull. PGE BO pees 
_ The plant occupies an irregular circular form, from 1 to 2 
inches * ono Sabeenne like a stiff jelly of a dirty brown 
colour, divided down to the root. Lobes waved, plaited, 
3-10ths of an inch broad, about 1-20th of an inch in thickness. 
When soaked in water it gives out freely to the water a colour 
like that of the deepest Madeira wine. © 
On the broken branch of a Hornbeam, on the pool dam, 
Edgbaston Park. 26th June, 1792: 
Witches Butter. Trunks of trees. [Common on fallen wood 
and dead sticks, in woods, Mr. Woopwarp.] é 
A. May. Sept.—Jan. 
Tr. Red purple, either lobed, plaited and curled; or sarcoi’des. 
hemispherical, or club-shaped, or approaching to ‘dh 
funnel-shaped. : c 
Bolt. 101, 2-Schaeff. 323 and 324-Facq. misc. ti. 22- 
Batsch. 53. ; — 
‘Grows in clusters. Stem sometimes very distinct, % of an 
inch high, supporting a kind of convex pileus 3-8ths of an inch 
in diameter, with a'dimple in the centre. Whole plant of a fine 
reddish purple; gelatinous and semi-transparent. 
_ On rotten wood. - Noy.—April. 
Tr. Dark pinky red: gelatinous, stiff; globular but com-cinnabari‘na 
pressed : surface roughish. . - 
