1920] The Lower Basidiomycetes of North Carolina 139 



(Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 28:287. 1901), but he now considers it an 

 abnormal excrescence of the mushroom itself (Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 

 2:656. 1915). We have found it here. 



Key to the Species Included 



Plants growing- npright from the ground, with stout, 



hollow branches T. reticulata (1) 



Plants with thin, complicated, flattened, crowded, or 

 open lobes; spores subspherical or jug-shaped, white. 



Color nearly pure translucent white T. fnciformis (2) 



Color a translucent fleshy brown or raisin-clay or 

 a deeper raisin color 

 Spores subspherical, plant large 



Surface quite smooth; spores less than S/x 



thick T. frondosa (3) 



Surface roughish ; spores more than 8,14 thick.. T. aspera (4) 



Spores jug-shaped, plant small T. auricnlaria (o) 



Plants forming dense yellow or orange masses com- 

 posed of folded and more or less flattened lobes; 

 spores yellowish or orange. 



Growing on decidious wood T. lutescens (6) 



Growing on pine T. pinicola (7) 



Plants forming pulpy, diffused, amber-colored masses 

 on dogwood or oak branches; spores pale, broadly 



elliptic T. virens (8) 



Plants forming small, irregular, convex, whitish or 

 pinkish or creamy and usually much eroAvded cushions 



Avith brain-like folds; spores white T. oarncoaJha (9; 



Plants in form like the above, but color pallid Ijrown 



to Avine-brown and Avhen dry nearly black T. suhanomaJa (10) 



Plants in form something like the above, but purplish, 



almost black E. moriformis (11) 



1. Tremella reticulata (Berk.) Farlow. 



? Tremella vesicaria Bull. 

 Sehacina tremellosa E. & E. 



Plates 37 and 56 



Plants 4.5-8.5 cm. high, 4-5.5 cm. broad in our collection, reaching 

 at times a greater width, arising in a contorted and complicated way 

 from the ground, and composed of more or less fused and anastomos- 

 ing branches which end in l)huit tips as in a coarse and dropsical 

 Clavaria ; color dull creamy white, not viscid, all parts hollow; semi- 

 translucent, tough and elastic like a very firm jelly, not tremulosc, 

 almost tasteless and odorless. 



Spores white, elliptic to pip-shaped, with a large mucro at one 

 end, granular, smooth, 4.4-7 x 8-12. 5^^. Basidia oval, 8.5-10.5 x 11-12.9/x. 



