SOME NORTH AMERICAN TREMELLACEAE, DACRY- 
OMYCETACEAE, AND AURICULARIACEAE 
EDWARD ANGUS BURT 
M ycologist and. Librarian to the Missouri Botanical Garden 
Professor of Botany in the Henry Shaw School of Botany of 
Washington University 
In 1899 I compared the authentic specimens of tremellaceous 
fungi in the Schweinitz herbarium in Philadelphia with collec- 
tions whieh I had accumulated while living in Vermont, where 
many of the Schweinitzian species are frequent. From time to 
time I have studied the types of species described by Berkeley 
and Curtis and by Peck and made comparisons with them. 
My deep interest in Professor Coker's recent work ‘The Lower 
Basidiomycetes of North Carolina" and in Mr. Lloyd's studies 
and comments on various species leads me to present the follow- 
ing notes: 
TREMELLACEAE 
Peziza concrescens Schw. and Tremella reticulata (Berk. & 
Curtis) Farl. are white species of T'remella, growing on the 
ground, of which the former is so soft that it may possibly be 
confused by collectors with the white plasmodium of a Myxomy- 
cete. This species has a long north and south range, for I have 
one specimen collected by Langlois in Louisiana, which Patouil- 
lard referred to Tremella fuciformis; the original collection was 
made by Schweinitz in North Carolina and again near Phila- 
delphia, when its basidiomycetous nature was recognized and 
it was published as Dacryomyces pellucidus Schw. This species 
is the Corticium tremellinum Berk. & Ravenel, collected by 
Ravenel in Georgia and referred to by Farlow in Rhodora 10: 
10. 1908. My collection was made by a mountain roadside 
between Lake Dunmore and Silver Lake, Vermont, where 
several fructifications were growing up from the ground incrust- 
ing herbs. In cases where several herbs were near enough 
together so that a fructification was using them all as supports, 
1 Elisha. Mitchell Scientif. Soc. Jour. 35: 113-182. pl. 23, 37-66. 1920. 
Issued July 6, 1922. 
ANN. Mo. Bor. Garb., Vor. 8, 1921 (361) 
