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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Tremella albida. Hud. 

 The Whitish Tremella. Edible. 



Albida, whitish. This plant is very common in the wood's about Chillicothe, 

 and everywhere in the state where beech, sugar-maple, and hickory prevail. 



It is whitish, becoming- dingy-brown when dry ; expanded, tough, undulated, 

 even, more or less gyrose, pruinose. It breaks the bark and spreads in irregular 

 and scalloped masses ; when moist it has a gelatinous consistency, a soft and 

 clammy touch, yielding like a mass of gelatine. Its spores are oblong, obtuse, 

 curved, marked with tear-like spots, almost transparent 1 , 12-14x4-5^. The speci- 

 men represented in Figure 402 was found near Sandusky and photographed by 

 Dr. Kellerman. 



Figure 402. Tremella albida. Natural size. 



Tremella mycetophila. Pk. 



Mycetophila is from two Greek words, mycctes, fungi: phila, fond of. The 

 plant is so called because it is found growing upon other fungi. 



Often nearly round, somewhat depressed, circling in folds, sometimes in 

 quite large masses about the stems of the plant, as will be seen in Figure 403, 

 tremelloid-fleshy, slightly pruinose, a dirty white or yellowish. 



I have found it frequently growing on Collybia drophila, as is the case in 

 Figure 403. Captain Mcllvaine speaks in his book of finding this plant parasitic 

 on Marasmius oreades in quite a large mass for this plant. I can verify the 

 statement for I have found it on M. oreades during damp weather in August and 

 September. It has a pleasant taste. 



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