1920] The Lower Basidiomycetes of North Carolina 143 



the spores having just the right shape and sprouting in the same 

 quite peculiar way. The spores are said to be pear-shaped, 10-12/a 

 thick; basidia lofx thick (see Moller: Protobasidiom^'ceten, p. 170, 

 PL 4, fig. 16. 1895). 



41.39. Oil privet (L. sinensc), February 21, 1920. Drawings. 



6. Tremella lutescens Pers. 



Plates 23, 41 and 57 



Plant forming an elevated, lobed mass with a surface of crumxjled 

 folds resembling somewhat a duodenum, many of the larger folds 

 hollow, emerging from a small attachment and often bursting through 

 the bark ; surface not rough ; breadth about 1-2.5 cm., height about 

 3-17 mm., surface dull, glaucous from the spores, color pale orange to 

 clear orange, drying usually a rather darker orange and retaining 

 much of its form. Texture firmly gelatinous, much less soft than 

 Exidia gelatinosa. 



Spores (of No. 3895) smooth, spherical to short-elliptic, 6.3-9 x 

 7-13jLi, varying in size with the cells from which they spring. Basidia 

 pear-shaped, divided into cells by longitudinal or slanting or quite 

 irregular walls, the cells often quite unequal in size. 



Easily recognized by its bright color, folded and hollow structure, 

 medium size, glabrous surface, absence of a white membrane within 

 and growth on deciduous wood. This seems very like T. compacta 

 Moller from Brazil in form, size, color and hollow lobes, but that is 

 said to have basidia 12-14;u, thick and spores 6-1 jx thick (Moller I.e. 

 p. 107). See also Lloyd in Mye. Notes 58:825. 1919. In the Curtis 

 Herbarium plants labelled T. lutescens are mostlj^ T. fuciformis. Such 

 are plants from Hillsboro, N. C, Santee Canal, S. C, and Alabama. 

 One so labelled from the Schweinitz Herbarium (Bethlehem) is a 

 Dacrymyces with large eight-celled spores, 7-7.8 x 20-23|li. It looks like 

 Curtis' Society Hill Dacrymyces which he calls T. nurauiia. but which 

 is not that species. 



This I liave decided to call T. liitrscnis ratlier tlian T. mcsenterica 

 although 1 am far from convinced tliat these two species are properly 

 understood eithei- in Europe or America, if indited they are distinct. 

 There are no serious discrepancies between our plant and T. lutescens 

 as understood by Brefeld. His ])lant, contrary to the usual state- 

 ment, is orange wiien young, paler in age. The plant is usually re- 



