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This is the T. fucifoniiis of Atkinson's American Fnngi, fig. 196, 

 but I am following Farlow who seems to be right in determining it as 

 T. reticulata (see Rhodora 10:9. 1908). Lloyd thinks our plants 

 are the same that pass in Europe as T. vesicaria (see Bulliard's 

 PI. 427), but that it is not the true species of Bulliard. See also a 

 good photo by Lloyd in Myc. Notes, Old Sp. Series No. 1, fig. 224. 

 1908 (as T. clavariokles) . His fig. 1562 in Myc. Notes 61. 1919, as 

 T. sparassoidea, is probably the same also. (See also Myc. Notes 

 62 : fig. 1646. 1920, and Mycologia 12 : 141, PI. 10, fig. 3, 1920). 

 2690. Low damp Avoods by creek, upper Laurel Hill, July 17, 1917. Photo. 



2. Tremella fuciformis Berk. 



Plates 38 and 56 



Plant forming a mass about 5 cm. long and 2 cm. high, composed 

 of thin, flat, much crinkled and fluted lobes, texture tremulose, but 

 quite tough ; color a slightly soiled, translucent white. 



Spores white, subglobose, smooth with a large oil drop, about 6.2/x 

 in diameter. Basidia divided longitudinally into four cells, short and 

 thick with long sterigmata. 



According to Lloyd this is the true T. fuciformis, and is, he says, 

 the third specimen known from the United States (but see notes under 

 T. lutesceus). The species was described from the Amazon and later 

 recorded from Cuba and Jamaica and only reaches our southern states, 

 the Orange County collections being the most northern record (see 

 Farlow in Rhodora 10:10. 1908). In a letter to me of September 3, 

 1918, Lloyd says that it has probably passed with southern ' ' collectors 

 as 'Tremella alhicla/ our common, white northern species. But 

 Tremella alhida of America is an entirely different plant from Tremel- 

 la alhicla of England." (See also Myc. Notes No. 55:790, fig. 1188. 

 1918. Also ihid., No. 40:556. 1916). Tremella alhida of Europe is 

 now kno-\\ai bj'' most authors as Exidia alhida (Huds.) Bref. and 

 differs sharply from our No. 1408 in the elongated, curved spores 

 (4-6 X 12-14/x Karsten). The figure given by Moller of T. fuciformis 

 (from Brazil) in his Protobasidiomyceten, PL 1, fig. 5 (1895), is like 

 our plant in all essentials. See also the good photo by Lloyd men- 

 tioned above. The spores agree with Moller 's measurements. For 

 illustrations see Gilbert in Trans. Wis. Acad. 16: PI. 83, figs. 17-22. 

 1910. Dacnjmijces peUucidus Schw. is probably the same thing. See 

 page 173. 



