EXIDIA CANDIDA FROM J. M. GRANT, WASHINGTON 



(Figs. 880 and 881) . Applanate, white with grayish, cerebriform lobes. 

 Basidia 16-20 mic. oblong or globose, with gran- 

 ular contents. Spores 8x16, hyaline, slightly 

 curved, with granular contents, laterally apicu- 

 late. Imbedded ducts, none. Papillae, none. 

 The basidia are borne near the surface, not 

 Fig. 880. deeply imbedded as in most tremellaceous 



plants. It has much resem- 

 blance to Exidiopsis alba. (Note 

 48) (not Exidia albida of Europe) 

 but differs entirely in its spores. 

 Years ago in England a 

 white, tremellaceous plant was 

 named Tremella albida, and 

 since it is the fashion to so call 

 all white, tremellaceous plants. 



/.^MQBMBrajag^ Two quite different species have 

 ^Lfyil ^PjRfflM^nPj ' generally passed under this name 



ANSBK*W^ > ..' U;t>. -\0te 48), viz. Exidia albida 

 (BjBB^BMaB^BKnih k * , of Europe, and Exidiopsis alba 

 fc^* of the United States. I am con- 



fident that this species, quite 

 different from either, would be 

 so referred by the older namers. 

 We present herewith, figure 

 880, the dried plant as received 

 by me. Figure 881 as it soaked out after a short time in water. No 

 class of fungi make poorer dried specimens than tremellaceous plants, 

 but none are more satisfactory to work with, for a few minutes soak- 

 ing restores them to the same condition as when freshly collected. 

 We hope our correspondents in tropical countries will collect 

 every tremellaceous plant they note, and dry it. It is a mistake to 

 send them preserved in formaline, which destroys their color and 

 often turns them into an amorphous mass. 



DACRYOMYCES DIGRESSUS FROM 

 DUTHIE, SOUTH AFRICA (Fig. 

 gelatinous, cerebriform. Color pale, 

 dirty yellowish. Basidia forked. Spores 6x12 

 slightly curved, laterally apiculate, hyaline, smooth' 



This resembles Tremella lutescens but has en- 

 tirely different basidia. It departs from the usual 

 Uacryomyces, being larger with aspect of a Tremella. 

 Stat W TV, ne ther ' viz ' Dacr ymyces aurantius of the United ; 

 found non s P re * are those of Dacryomyces as to shape, but I 



StttTM!^ in this genus - They probably be - 



Fig. 881. 



Fig ' 882 ' 



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