93 



T. Mescnterica, Retz. Sow., Eng. Bot., t. 709. Huss., i., t. 27. 



Coruiuon. 



T Moriformis, B. Sow., Eng. Bot, t. 2446. On elm sticks. 



Batheaston. 



T. Albida, Huds. Sow., Eng. Bot., t. 2117. Very common. 



T. Sarcoides,* Smith. B. Outlines, pi. 2, fig. 7. Sow., Eng. 

 Bot, t 2450. 



T. Epigcea, B. and Br. Ann. of Nat Hist, eer. ii., p. 266, 

 with a fig. Leigh Woods ; on the earth. 



T. "Versicolor, B. and Br., occurred at Batheaston and various 

 other localities in the winter of 1850, since which I have looked 

 for it in vain. Annals of Nat. Hist, May and June, 1854. 



T. Viscosa, P., is Corticium Viscosuni of Persoon. It has the 

 true structure of a Tremella, viz., globose sporophores, producing 

 three or four elongated sterigmata, and oblong spores. 



T. Torta, Wild. 



There may often be seen, in the winter, bits of stick ornamented 

 by bright yellow, lobed, gelatinous masses, sometimes two or three 

 inches across ; this is TrenuUa Mesenterica. The genus was defined, 

 in a few words, before, but is worthy of further remark from its 

 peculiar structure. Fries considers it as the lowest form of the 

 Hymenomycetes, and therefore intimately connected with other 

 orders, and descending at once into the Coniomycetes. There is an 

 admirable paper on it by Tulasne in the Annales des Sciences 

 Naturelles, read before the Academy of Sciences in April, 1853, 

 from which an extract is given below. Fries says that Hydnum 

 Gelatinosum, and the species composing one or two other genera, 

 are of the same structure, and as regards the first, his remark is 

 borne out by my friend Mr. Currey, who has found that species in 

 fir woods, near Taplow. Mr. Currej^s obsei-\'ations are as follows : 

 — " On examining the fructification of Hydnum Gelatinosum, I 

 was surprised to find that, although in its external characters it is 

 a perfect Hydnum, it bears the fruit of a Tremella. If one of the 

 teeth be examined with the microscope, it will be seen to consist of 

 threads, bearing four-lobed sporophores and spores exactly similar 



•"Tremella Sarcoides, Sn\., is now considered merely a naked-spored state of 

 Coryne Sarcoides, Fr. Bulgaria Sarcoides, Fr., is the ascigerous state. 



