Fig. 1021. 



TREMELLA FUSCA, FROM REV. C. TORREND, BRAZIL 

 (Fig. 1021). Cerebrine, reddish brown, 2-3 cm. in diameter. Basidia 

 globose, with brownish contents, 

 mostly cruciately divided, 12 mic. 

 in diameter. Spores narrow, obo- 

 vate, tapering to the base, hyaline, 

 4-5 mic. broad at upper end, 10-12 

 mic. long. 



The trcmelloid plants that 

 grow in the tropics are particu- 

 larly desired. The temperate re- 

 gion species are very well known, 

 but little has been done on the 

 tropical species. Moeller wrote on the Brazilian species, and his 

 work was so well done that they may be recognized, which is some- 

 thing that can rarely be said about mycological work. I hoped to 

 find this species in Moeller, but I did not. The only brown species 

 he records are Tremella auricularia and Tremella frondosa (the 

 latter under the name juggle, Tremella undulata) and both differ in 

 form (foliaceous) and spores (more globose). In fact this is the 

 only Tremella I have met with narrow, obovate spores. Most Tre- 

 mellas have subglobose, or at the best, pear-shaped spores. Moeller 

 has named a number of tremellaceous plants from Brazil, and de- 

 scribed and figured them so that they may be recognized. We should 

 like very much to get them in our museum. 



TRAMETES STOWARDII, FROM DR. F. STOWARD, \V. 

 AUSTRALIA (Fig. 1022). A form of lilacino-gilva. This is the 

 same plant as described in 

 our Fomes pamphlet, page 

 226, as to context and other 

 features, but the surface is 

 so strongly rugose that it is 

 entitled to a name as a form. 

 We present Fig. 1022, the 

 upper surface of Trametes 

 Stowardii, and in contrast 

 Fig. 1023, Trametes lilacino- 

 gilvus, the usual species in 

 Australia with pink con- 

 text. The photographs do 

 not show the contrast that 

 the specimens do. Fig. 1022. 



