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Kqw, aiul thinks it a Dacrymyces. We adapt the following from his descrip- 

 tion: (Jour. Myc. 6:182, P1.7, figs, 14-17. 1890): Erumpent; dark amber, 

 appressed, surface slightly rugulose, or almost smooth, bounded by the ruptured 

 bark, up to 1 centimeter diameter; basidia cylindrical, bifurcate at the apex, 

 45-50 X 5fj, ; spores elliptie-oblong, colorless, with an oblique apiculus at the 

 base, slightly curved, 10-11 x 3.5/^. Superficially resembling a small discolored 

 form of Tremella albida, but a true Dacrymyces. From ;5 millimetres to 1 

 centimetre across. On Alnus serrulata and oak. Lower Carolina. 



Tremella myricae Berk. & Cooke. The following is adapted from Massee (Jour. 

 Myc. 6: 182. 1890): Foliaceo-gyrose, gelatinoso-elastic, semi-pellucid, smoky 

 gray, when dry blackish Avith a tinge of purple here and there, surface with 

 minute, scattered points; spores broadly elliptic, with an oblique apiculus, 

 8-9 X Q-T/jL, colorless. Forming thin, f cliaceous expansions when dry, 1-4 cen- 

 timeters across. The minutely scabrid surface when dry is characteristic. On 

 bark of Myrica and Persea, Gainesville, Fla. (Eav.). 



Tremella dependens B. & C. The following is from Massee (Jour. Myc. 6: 183. 

 1890) : Pendulous, elongato-elavate, attached by a slender stem-like base, 

 mucilaginous, pale dingy yellow, the central portion consisting of exceedingly 

 thin hyphae immersed in mucilage ; toAvards the even surface the hyphae 

 become thicker and form a compact layer which produces basidia at every part 

 of the surface ; basidia spherical with four elongated sterigmata ; spores elliptic- 

 oblong, smooth, colorless, 7 x 3-3.5^. Hanging down from underside of rotten 

 poplar (Liriodendron) logs after rain, Alabama. Peters. 



Tremella stippitata Pk. (Eep. 27; 100. 1875) is a Coryne. He also reports T. 

 enata B. & C. (1. c. p. 100). 



Pliaeotremella pseudofoliacea Eea. (Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. 3:377. 1912). This 

 genus is based apparently only on the umbrinous spores (which are obovate, 

 12 X 9-12/i). The plant looks much like our Naematelia quercina in external 

 form, and the spores are about the same. 



Exidia scutellaeforme B. & C. In the Curtis Herbarium is a specimen of this 

 from Alabama (Peters No. 1093: Curtis No. 6343. Type?) The dried plants 

 are black and look like E. glandulosa. In Dr. Farlow 's Avriting is the note: 

 ' ' Basidia are vertically 4-parted. ' ' 



Exidia pinicola (Pk) (Eep. 39, p. 44. 1886 as Tremella). Peck's description is: 

 ' ' Pulvinate, gyrose-plicate, somewhat lobed and lacunose, raisin-colored Avhen 

 moist, blackish when dry, filaments slender, branched; spores oblong, curved, 

 colorless, .0005 in. long, .0002 broad. Dead branches of pine, July." 

 We have examined the type and find the color as described; basidia oval or 

 pear-shaped, 4-parted, 9.3-10.3;u thick; spores curved-elliptic, smooth, 3.7-4x9.5- 

 11.1/x. This evidently throws the plant into the genus Exidia, and it seems 

 nearest E. geleitinosa. The surface appearance is that of a crowded colony 

 of very small individuals of E, gelatinosa, and is not at all cerebriform. It may 

 be easily recognized by the raisin-color, small flat plates around sunken 

 chambers and growth on pine. The texture is toughly gelatinous. It may 

 well be that this is the same as E.umbrinella Bres. which grows on conifers, is 

 said to be near E. reeisa, and has spores 3-4x11-14^, basidia 8-9 x 10-12/x 

 (Fung. Trident. 2:98, PI. 209, fig. 2. 1900). 



