TREMELLA CLAVARIOIDES (Fig. 224.) A rare plant, I 

 judge, has been received from Professor G. D. Smith of Akron, Ohio, 

 and Dr. Mary S. Whetstone of Minneapolis, Minn. I have never 

 seen it growing nor did I find it in Professor Peck's museum. It is 

 a pure white Tremella that has the general appearance of being a 

 Clavaria. The substance is gelatinous, though it is firmer than most 

 Tremellas and retains its form even when very moist. It has the 

 typical basidia and spores of a Tremella and the gelatinous nature, 



Fig 224 



Tremella clavariodes. 



and therefore will have to be classed as the genus Tremella though 

 it can not be entered in any of the present sections of the genus, 

 and a new section, Clavariformis, must be made to include it. 10 In 

 drying the plant shrivels but retains its form, and on moistening it 

 soon assumes its growing shape and size. Our photograph (Fig. 

 224) was made from a dried specimen that had been moistened. 



30 My friend, Professor McGinty, suggests that it would be simpler to make a "new 

 genus," as that will surely be done as soon as the facts are published. He proposes the name 

 "Cprticioides reticulatum, new genus, McGinty," on the same principle apparently (it being 

 neither a Corticium nor reticulate} that the name Tremellodendron was proposed for plants 

 that are neither " Tremellas " nor " trees." 



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