154 Journal of the Mitchell Society [June 



352. Mixed woods, damp low plae^', growing on ground, October 20, 1910. 



648. On hillside east of Howell's branch, October 29, 1912. 



695. In mossy grass in middle of campus, June 15, 1913. 



1385. In old Raleigh road, just north of Piney Prospect, October 19, 1914. 



Photo. 



1386. By Battle's branch, September 25, 1913. 



2245. Forming a j^artial fairy ring of very fine plants, swamp of New Hope 

 Creek, below Durham-Chapel Hill bridge, June 24, 1916. 



2420. Deciduous woods, Battle's Park, July 22, 1916. Spores 4.5-6 x 7.7-11. l^u. 

 These are typical, stout, large plants. 



North Carolina. Schweinitz. 

 North Carolina. Atkinson. 



2. Tremellodendron merismatoides (Schw.) Burt. 



Plate 45 



Plant 2.5-3.8 cm. high, in compound clusters about 2-3 cm. broad 

 above, with several partly fused stalks and verj- many delicate, onl}' 

 slightly fused branches ; white and tough. 



Spores (of No. 2324) smooth, elliptic, some bent, 4.8-6.6 x 7. 4-ll|u,. 



The more delicate forms of T. candidum approach this, but we 

 have found none close enough to it to make a complete gradation and 

 it may be a good species, as considered by Burt. The spores are exactly 

 like those of T. candidum in appearance ; in our one collection they 

 run a little shorter than in No. 1385, but no shorter than in No. 2420, 

 which are typical large plants. 



2324. In sandy humus, deciduous woods by western branch of Meeting of the 

 Waters, June 30, 1916. Photo. 



3. Tremellodendron Cladonia (Schw.) Burt. 



We have not found this and adapt the following from Burt (I.e. 

 2:738. 1915): 



Plant 2.5-5 cm. high, 0.7-2 cm. broad ; stem about 1.5 mm. thick ; 

 solitary or gregarious, erect, coriaceous-soft, pallid, drying warm 

 buff, sometimes with the older portions pale olive-gra.v, stipitate ; 

 stem cylindric, palmately branched into a few — often three — cylindric 

 branches, each or some of which occasionally branch again in similar 

 manner ; branches arranged in a plane from flattened end of stem or 

 branch or in a circle about the cylindric end of the stem which is then 

 sometimes perforate and the branches often channelled; hymenium 

 amphigenous, or inferior when the branch is channelled; basidia 



