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authentic T. aurantia in Herb. Schweinitz and with the original 
description of this species which was based on specimens col- 
lected at Salem, North Carolina. Later in the year Professor 
Rolfs sent me another gathering of T. aurantia. These speci- 
mens from Professor Rolfs upon being split open proved to 
be white and fibrous-fleshy within, being cogeneric in this re- 
spect with Naematelia encephala, and they show this structure 
well at the present time, hence Tremella aurantia should be 
transferred to Naematelia. Coker has made this disposition 
of the species but under the name  Naematelia quercina 
Coker. 'The descriptions and synonymy of this species and 
of the related N. encephala follow: 
Naematelia aurantia (Schw.) Burt, n. comb. 
Tremella aurantia Schweinitz, Naturforsch. Ges. Leipzig 
Schrift. 1: 114. 1822; Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. N. S. 4: 185. 1832; 
Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 213. 1823; Epicr. 588. 1838; Sace. Syll. 
Fung. 6: 781. 1888; Lloyd, Mye. Writ. 3. Myc. Notes, Old 
Species 1: 11, with teat f 225 doubtful. 1908.—Naematelia 
quercina Coker, Elisha Mitchell Scientific Soc. Jour. 6. 135. 
pl. 28, f. 1; pl. 58, f. 1-2. 1920; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 35: Myc. 
Notes 64: 1024. 1921.—An Sparassis tremelloides Berkeley, 
Grevillea 2: 6. 1873? See Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 6. Myc. Notes 
64: 1025. 1921.—Not Tremella aurantia of Farlow, Appa- 
lachia 3: 248. 1883, nor of Coker, Elisha Mitchell Scientif. 
Soc. Jour. 35: 163. 1920. 
Ilustrations: Coker, loc. cit. 
Fructifications a hemispherical or more elongated, cocks- 
comb-shaped mass divided nearly to the substratum into a few— 
about 3-6—somewhat flattened and crumpled lobes, xanthine- 
orange (aurantiacus of Saccardo’s ‘Chromotaxia’), drying ochra- 
ceous orange to walnut-brown in the herbarium, and solid, 
fibrous, and whitish within when dried; basidia subglobose, 
longitudinally cruciately septate, 15-18 x 12-15 y, often about 
15 v. in diameter; spores hyaline, even, subglobose, 9-12 x 8-9 u. 
Fructifications when fresh up to 215 em. high by 4!5 x 8 cm., 
contracting when drying to masses 5-7 mm. high by 12-16 x 
6-12 mm. 
