1921] 
BURT—TREMELLACEAE, DACRYOMYCETACEAE, AURICULARIACEAE 373 
Pennsylvania: Bethlehem, Schweinitz, type (in Herb. Schwein- 
itz). 
Tremella colorata Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 25: 83. 1873; 
Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 788. 1888. 
I have not collected this species but the color reactions of the 
type are so remarkable that, if constant, they should distinguish 
the species from all others known to me. In the first place 
the ash bark and wood for a distance about the fructification 
are now, fifty years since the collection was made, still con- 
spicuously stained vinaceous-drab as noted by Peck.  Further- 
more, in my microscopical, glycerin mount of this fungus, 
stained with Gruebler’s alcoholic eosin and the color set with a 
trace of acetic acid, the basidia and hyphae are vinaceous-lilac 
instead of the brighter red usually given by the eosin. The 
basidia are spherical, 13-15 y in diameter, longitudinally cruci- 
ately septate, mostly still immature although occasionally one 
may be found bearing slender sterigmata up to 30 y long; only 
four spore-like bodies have been found; all are hyaline, simple, 
even, curved, two are 7 x 41% y and the other two 15 x 6 u. It 
seems improbable that the spores are colored, globose, 12-15 y 
in diameter, as published by Peck. Should an Ezidia be col- 
lected having color characters and basidia as noted, comparison 
with the type as to other characters will probably demonstrate 
that it is T'. colorata Pk. 
Tremella subcarnosa Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 32: 36. 
1879; N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 12: 15. 1887; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 
258. 1891. 
Examination of the type in N. Y. State Mus. Herb. shows 
that this fungus is not a Basidiomycete but rather one of the 
Tubercularieae. 
So many species of Tremellaceae had been published as 
species of Thelephora, Stereum, and Corticium and were 
distributed under these genera in herbaria that I have already 
published: for the convenience of students of the T'helephoraceae 
an account of the central-stemmed tremelloid genus T'remello- 
dendron, the reflexed Hichleriella, and the resupinate Sebacina. 
! Mo. Bot. Gard. Ann. 2: 731-770. 1915. 
