CHAPTER XI. 



TREMELLINI FR. 



Tremellini is from tremo, to tremble. The whole plant is gelatinous, with 

 the exception, occasionally, of the nucleus. The sporophores are large, simple or 

 divided. Spicules elongated into threads. Berk. 



The following genera are included : 



Tremella Immarginate. Hymenium universal. 



Exidia Margined. Hymenium superior. 



Hirneola Cartilaginous, ear-shaped, attached by a point. 



Tremella. Fr. 



This plant is so called because the entire plant is gelatinous, tremulous, and 

 without a definite margin, and also without nipple-like elevations. 



Tremella lutescens. Fr. 



Yellowish Tremella. Edible. 



This is a small gelatinous cluster, tremulous, convoluted, in wavy folds, 

 pallid, then yellowish, with its lobes crowded and entire. Quite common over the 

 state. It is found on decaying limbs and stumps from July to winter. It dries 

 during absence of rain but revives and becomes tremulous during wet weather. 

 It is called lutescens because of its yellowish color. 



Tremella mesenterica. Retz. 



Mesenterica is from two Greek words meaning the mesentery. Phe plant 

 varies in size and form, sometimes quite flat and thin but generally ascending and 

 strongly lobed ; plicated, and convoluted ; gelatinous but firm ; lobes short, smooth, 

 covered with a frost-like bloom by the white spores at maturity. The spores are 

 broadly elliptical. Common in the woods on decaying sticks and branches. 



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