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GRYPTOGAMIA. ALGAE. Tremella, 
Ball, 455. 2.belit Sawer - biid ia 
»/) Very small; growing in clusters, otherwise a single plant 
would hardly besdsetoupeisheddiatohe naked eye. First men. 
- tioned as a native by Mr. Relhan, who found it on Hinton 
Sabine. 
— 
deliques’- 
get eens. 
Moor, growing on mosses, and: other herbaceous plants... Bulliard 
says is partichlarly affects to grow upon the Hypnum sericeum. 
Tr. Tawny, velvet-like, irregularly tooth-shaped: 
"| Schmid: 66=Hoffm. crypt. 1. 7. QE. bot: 71 Mich. 88. 5= 
Gled. 1. Clavaria f. 6. Beets Sek ss 
“> Growing in clusters. Substance when fresh, jelly-like, 
strap-shaped, lopped, more than an inch long. Drcxs. An inch 
high, orange-coloured or tawny, gélatinous, pulpy, in clustets, 
simple, awl-shaped, but compressed, rather pyramidal, or with 
2-horns; sometimes with blunt teeth at the sides. When dried 
leathery but brittle, opake, darker coloured, recovering its for- 
mer appearance when soaked in water. Seeds an orange-coloured 
dust which it throws out as it dries. Jaco. coll. ii. 174. 
T. juniperina according to Web. 277, but it does not accord 
with the description in the Fl. lapp. Dicks. Raed 
On /iving branches of Savine. ._. 
In a rainy season abundant on Savine bushes in the garden 
i the lntehel* ee ee ee 
“Var. 2. Of a ape orange colour, firmer substance, and 
more regular dog-tooth shape than the above. This variety is 
undoubtedly the 7. juziperina of Linnzus, . I found it growing 
plentifully on the /iving main stem of the Juniperus communis 
in the same wet season as the above, Dr. Smith in E, bot. 
justly observes that most parasitical cryptogamous plants are 
found either upon totally dead trunks or branches, which is the 
case with Fungi or Tremellz in general ; or they are rooted, 
like the crustaceous Lichens, in decayed external Jayers of the 
bark, On the contrary, the T. Sabine and T. juniperina spring 
from ‘the live wood, under the bark of vigorous branches, 
From these circumstances Dr. Smith infers these plants ¢ to be 
mere gummy exudations, ‘and that the powdery surface was 
owing to resinous particles, insoluble in water, accompanying 
them.’ But I have. been so fortunate as to find both these 
kinds of Tremella in perfection at the same time, have proved 
them to be totally insoluble in water, and that. their substance. 
is no more of a gummy nature than that of many other of the 
same Genus, particularly the T. mesenterica. 
~ Common on the Junipers at the Larches, April. 
ting, lobed: lobes few, blunt. 
ae Bull. 455. 3. 
TR. Deliquescent : yellow, changing to orange red ; sit- 
