TREMELLA 731 



late, gyrose, pruinose with the spores. Flesh concolorous, gelatinous, 

 becoming firm, tough. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 13-14 x 

 7-8 (JL; "basidia 15-20 x 12-18 fj,. Conidia ovoid globose, 3-5 /u. in 

 diam. Hyphae 2-3/u in diam." BoUrd. & Galz. Dead branches, sticks, 

 rails, furze, broom, and ivy. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



2491. T. vesicaria Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 2451. Vesicaria, bladdery. 



R. 5 cm. high and broad, pallid, or yellowish, erect, undulated, 

 gyrose. Flesh pale, bladdery, very viscid. Spores "11 x 6/u"B. &Br. 

 On the ground. Sept. Rare. 



2492. T. albida (Huds.) Fr. Engl. Bot. t. 2117. (= Dacryomyces 

 hyalinus Pers. sec. Quel.) Albida, whitish. 



R. 1-4 cm., whitish, hyaline, becoming brownish, erumpent, undu- 

 lated, somewhat gyrose, pruinose. Flesh whitish, gelatinous, sub- 

 diaphanous, fairly thick. Spores white, globose, often with an obtuse 

 apiculus at the base, 9-10/u,; "basidia 12-23 x 12-15, with 100/i and 

 more long sterigmata" Bourd. & Galz. Hyphae hyaline, 2-3 p in 

 diam., with a few clamp connections. Fallen branches, sticks and 

 rails. Sept. May. Common, (v.v.) 



III. Crustaceous, effused, smooth. 



2493. T. epigaea B. & Br. (= Sebacina laciniata (Bull.) Bres. f. epigaea 

 B. & Br. sec. Bourd. & Maire.) Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, u, t. 9, 

 fig. 3. 7rt7ato9, upon the earth. 



R. 3-10 cm., white, effused, gyroso-plicate, sprinkled with the white 

 spores. Flesh white, gelatinous, thin. Spores white, subglobose, 6 x 4/n. 

 Naked soil. Aug. Sept. Rare. 



IV. Tubercular, small, suberumpent. 



2494. T. violacea (Relh.) Fr. Violacea, violet. 



R. 3-8 mm., violaceous, becoming black when dry, erumpent, sub- 

 compressed, gyrose. Flesh paler, gelatinous, then firm, 2 mm. thick. 

 Spores "cream citron, punctate, ovoid, 5/z" Quel. Gregarious. Pear 

 trunks. Rare. 



2495. T. indecorata Sommerf. Fr. Icon. t. 200, fig. 4. 



Indecorata, ugly. 



R. 4-30 mm., dingy, livid, or olivaceous, becoming fuscous, black 

 fuscous when dry, erumpent, convex when moist, then plicate. Flesh 

 dingy, gelatinous, then firm, opaque. Spores white, globose, 6-9/z, 

 minutely punctate. Birch, oak, willow, and poplar. Oct. Nov. Rare. 



