G2 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Tremella vesicaria. Bull. 



Gelatinous but externally firm, soft and bladdery within, 

 much contorted, pallid or yellowish ; spores 10 x 6 p.. 



Tremella vesicaria, Bulliard, t. 427, f. 3 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 345. 



On the ground. Erect, tufts reaching 2 in. high and 

 broad, or even more ; brownish when old. 



Sect. III. Crustaceae. 

 Effused and applanate. 



Tremella viscosa. Berk. 



Small, depressed, undulate, white then grey, spores broadly 

 elliptical, 7-9 x 6 fi. 



Tremella viscosa, Berk., Outl., p. 288 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 347. 



Thelephora viscosa, Berk., Engl. Fl., vol. v. p. 171. 



On dead wood. Forming grey, adpressed, small gelatinous 

 patches. When dry resembling a thin, closely adpressed 

 skin of a brown colour. 



Tremella epigaea. B. & Br. 



Gelatinous, effused and depressed, undulated and con- 

 torted, thin, white, at length pruinose ; spore subglobose, 



Tremella epigaea, Berk, and Broome, Ann. Nat. Hist., no. 

 373 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 348. 



On the naked soil. Forming a thin, white stratum. 



Sect. IV. Tuberculiformes. 

 Small, suberumpent. 



Tremella indecorata. Somm. 



Gelatinous, erumpent, sessile, rounded, moist, opaque, 

 plicate, dingy-olive, becoming blackish -brown when dry; 

 spores globose, 79 p. diameter. 



Tremella indecorata, Sommerf. Lapp., p. 306 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 346. 



On willow, poplar, &c. Erumpent, 3-4 lines across, dirty- 

 grey, livid, or olive-brown, pitch-brown when dry. 



Tremella moriformis. Berk. 

 Sessile, erumpent, roundish or oblong, sinuated, black, 



