1920] The Lower Basidiomycetes of North Carolina 145 



We refer this to T. pinicola Britz. because it is about the same 

 color and size, grows on pine and has similar spores. There is nothing 

 else at all like these on pine and it seems best to interpret it in this 

 way at present rather than to make a new species. Only microscopic 

 comparison with the type, if any exists, can make the determination 

 sure. Britzelmayr's description of his species is as follows (trans- 

 ■lation) : "Gelatinous, externally orange, inside clearer, sessile or with a 

 short stalk, surface with small undulations and pits, in other respects, 

 including the spores, similar to T. ynesejiterica; on the bark of pine, fir 

 and larch throughout the year." (Bot. Centralb. 54:101. 1893). I 

 have not seen his fig. 19 in his Tremellini fascicle as it is missing in 

 the copy at the New York Botanical Garden. TremeUa pinicola Pk. 

 was published earlier and would take precedence, but it is not a 

 Tremella. (See note on p. 150). 



This cannot be T. rufolutea from Cuba. In the Curtis Herbarium 

 is a specimen labelled T. rufolutea from Cuba (Wright, No. 217). It 

 is a resin-colored mass of considerable size, apparently solid and amor- 

 phous. It is certainly not a Tremella. (See note l)y Lloyd under 

 T. compacta in Myc. Notes 58:825. 1919.) No basidia could be ob- 

 tained from it. Massee's notes on T. rufolutea seem to refer to an 

 entirely different plant (Jour. Myc. 6:183. 1890). It resembles most 

 Naematelia quercina (No. 3935) in form and color, basidia and spores, 

 but differs in absence of the internal white membranes and different 

 surface. Tremella lutescens (No. 3895) is also very similar in form 

 and color, but differs in the smaller spores, smaller and more elongated 

 basidia and hollow sacs. Both differ also' in growing on deciduous 

 wood. The lobes of the present species (No. 4050) are more like 

 folded plates (as in T. froudosa but to a less degree) than in the 

 other two. Treinella spectahilis ]\Ioller from Brazil is of somewhat 

 similar form and color, but has basidia IS-loix thick and spores 

 5-6 X 10/^., and prol)al)ly grows on deciduous wood (kind not stated) 

 (Moller, I.e. p. 122). 



Hartsville, 8. C. On bark of Pin us tarda, December 2.j, 1919, (No. 

 4050). Coker. 



8. Tremella virens Srlnv. 



Plates .23 and 57 



Forming pulpy, much convoluted, irregular, flattened, compound 

 masses whicli may extend along tlie branch-like Exidia (jlandulosa for 



