EXIDIA 735 



2509. E. glandulosa (Bull.) Fr. Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. t. 420, fig. 1. 



Glandulosa, full of glands. 



R. 5-10 cm., blackish, globose, or lens-shaped, truncate, or pendu- 

 lous, somewhat plane, undulate, cinereous and subtomentose beneath, 

 feeling like black crape. Hymenium concolorous, studded with conical 

 papillae. Flesh blackish, gelatinous, diaphanous, soft. Spores white, 

 oblong, or cylindrical, curved, 12-15 x 4-5 ju,; basidia ovoid, 15-21 x 

 9-11 /A. Hyphae 1-3 //, in diam., with clamp connections. Dead 

 branches, especially bine. Aug. May. Common, (v.v.) 



2510. E. nucleata (Schwein.) Rea. (= Naematelia nucleata (Schwein.) 

 Fr.; Tremella gemmata Lev. sec Quel.; Exidia gemmata (Lev.) 

 Bourd. & Maire.) Demid. Exped. t. 4, fig. 1, as Tremella gemmata 

 Lev. Nucleata, having a kernel. 



R. 2-10 mm., hyaline, or tinged with amethyst or lilac, then opaline 

 and finally brick or flesh colour, date brown when dry, tubercular, round, 

 then pulvinate and undulato-plicate, finally effused, and confluent, 

 4-5 cm., either inclosing a whitish separable core of oxalate of lime, 

 or without a core (Tremella hyalina Pers.). Spores white, cylindrical, 

 more or less curved, 10-14 x 5-7 fj,; basidia ovoid, 12-16 x 9-12jtt. 

 Hyphae 1-5-3/i in diam. with indistinct clamp connections. Rotten 

 wood, and fallen branches. Jan. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2511. E. Thuretiana (Lev.) Fr. G. Thuret. 

 R. 1-4 cm., opalescent when fresh, sometimes tinged with pink, effused 



in thick, undulating, pulvinate, or tuberculate patches, firm, gela- 

 tinous. Hymenium concolorous, pruinose, finally collapsing into a 

 thin, horny, yellowish film. Spores hyaline, cylindrical, curved, 15- 

 20 x 5-7 //,; basidia longitudinally septate, 15-21 x 11-15/z. Hyphae 

 1-2-5 p, in diam. Underside of sticks, especially beech. Jan. May. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2512. E. viscosa (Berk.) Rea. (= Tremella viscosa Berk.) Boud. Icon. 

 t. 180, as Tremella viscosa Berk. Viscosa, sticky. 



R. 1-4 cm., white, with a greyish, or violaceous tinge, flattened, un- 

 dulate, smooth, slightly viscid; margin more or less sinuate. Flesh 

 whitish, gelatinous, diaphanous, somewhat thin. Spores white, oblong, 

 or sausage-shaped, often curved, 16-22 x 6-7 /A. Rotten wood, and 

 fallen branches. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



II. Spores on germination giving rise to straight, 

 or rod-like sporidiola. 



2513. E. saccharina Fr. (= Ulocolla saccharina (Fr.) Bref.) 



Saccharina, like sugar. 

 R. 3-8 cm., tawny cinnamon, or the colour of crystallised sugar, 



