1921] 
BURT—TREMELLACEAE, DACRYOMYCETACEAE, AURICULARIACEAE 369 
On dead wood of frondose species. New Jersey to South 
Carolina. December to March. Rare. 
Coker has published that the color is orange-yellow inside and 
out except for a thin white membrane about 0.7 mm. from the 
surface which follows all the convolutions and gives a marbled 
appearance to the cut surface. In the three gatherings before 
me which have been kept in the herbarium 20 to 25 years, the 
whole interior is as whitish within in its dried condition as it is 
in Naematelia encephala from which XN. aurantia is dis- 
tinguished in aspect by its larger, orange-colored fructifications 
which are divided nearly to the substratum into a few large 
lobes and by its occurrence on dead wood and dead saplings of 
oak and other frondose species. 
Specimens examined: 
Exsiecati: Ell & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 1719, under the name 
Naematelia encephala—three of the fructifications com- 
prising the specimen in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. copy are N. 
aurantia and the fourth is Tremella mesenterica; Ell. & 
Ev., Fungi Col. 1118, under the name N. encephala. 
New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis, in Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 
1719, and Fungi Col., 1118. 
North Carolina: Schweinitz, type (in Herb. Schweinitz). 
South Carolina: Clemson College, P. H. Rolfs, 8, 1888. 
N. encephala (Willd.) Fries, Obs. Myc. 2: 370. 1818; Syst. 
Mye. 2: 227. 1823; Epicr. 591. 1838; Hym. Eur. 696. 1874; 
Berkeley, Outl. Brit. Fung. 290. 1860; Sace. Syll. Fung. 
6: 793. 1888. 
Tremella encephaliformis Willdenow, Bot. Mag. 2: 17. 
pl. 4. f. 14. 1788.—Naemalelia encephaliformis (Willd.) 
Coker, Elisha Mitchell Seientif. Soc. Jour. 35: 137. 1920.— 
Tremella encephala (Willd.) Persoon, Syn. Fung. 623. 1801; 
Myc. Eur. 1: 98. 1822; Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 
(teats, 1897. 
Illustrations: Willdenow, loc. cit.; Stevenson, Brit. Hym. 2: 
316. text f. 99. 1886; Smith, Brit. Basidiomycetes, 452. 
text f. 117. 1908; Brefeld, Untersuch. Myk. 7: pl. 8. f. 20. 
1888. 
