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"We published this, Myc. Notes No. 61, p. 898, as Exidia Uva 

 Passa (in duplicate) having used this name (54, 774) for a plant 

 from Japan. AVe are not sure that our American plant is different 

 from the Japanese, but it appears to us to have a more reddish color 

 and smaller spores but it is practically the same." 



In accordance with his well-known principles, Mr. Lloyd does 

 not wish the above species name, here first used, to be followed by his 

 name, and I have left it off at his specific request. We have found 

 the plant three times in Chapel Hill, as is indicated by the collection 

 numbers below. Our notes on No. 3930 are as follows (the figures 

 on Plate 56 are ours) : 



Plant forming small, simple or more complicated pulvinate patches from 

 1-7 mm. broad and 1-2 mm. thick; surface, unless quite small, with folds like 

 a brain; surface farinose with spores, not papillate, or with a few small, obscure 

 warts, not viscid; color a dull sordid clay; texture firmly gelatinous. 



Spores (of No. 3930) white, smooth, rod-elliptic, some a little bent, 4-4.8 x 

 7.7-11.4ju, a few up to 6,7 x 14.8jn. Basidia (of No. 4191) short-ovate, 9-10 x 

 11-11.8^. 



When dry the plant collapses down to a thin, scarcely visible, sordid brown 

 membrane which is about the same color as the bark. This cannot be E. sucina 

 Moller from Brazil which has similar basidia and spores (basidia 10-12/x, spores 

 4-5x10-12^) for that is amber yellow in color (a "clear yellow," he says in 

 another place), and is particularly c?iaracterized by numerous peculiar enlarged 

 and elongated cells with yellow contents which run from the layer below the 

 basidia up to but not beyond the surface. They are 66-80^ long and 6-8^ thick 

 (Moller I.e. p. 95). 



3930. On dead branch of Bohinia pseudacacia with bark on, January 10, 1920. 

 4021. On Eobinia branches on tree, January 24, 1920. Like No. 3930. In drying 



shrinking down to a nearly black membrane. No Avhite nuclei. Spores 



Avhite, elliptic, some curved, 3.7-5 x 7.4-11^. Type. 

 4191. On decorticated oak wood, February 26, 1920. Color of plant dull reddish 



amber. Spores smooth, curved, 3.7-4.4 x 8-11. 8/^. 



NAEMATELIA 



Resembling the cushion-shaped Tremellas in form, but differing 

 in the presence of a firm, white or yellowish (said to be black in 

 iV. atrata Pk.) non-gelatinous central body or membrane which is sur- 

 rounded by the gelatinous, translucent portion. In drying the gelatin- 

 ous part shrinks to a membrane and leaves the unshrunken inner 

 whitish part more conspicuous. The genus was established b.y Fries 

 with N. encephala as the typical species (being the first mentioned). 

 He also included N. nucleata (T. nncleata Schw.), a plant too differ- 

 ent in its spores and in the presence of scattered white nuclei to be 



