CRYPTOGAMIA ALGIE. 901 



f)tirea.^. T. fubglobofa feflilis folitaria glabra. Sp.pl. 1626. 

 (Dillen.mu/c. t. 18./. 6.) 



Little red-knobb'd Tremella. Anglis, 



Upon the bark of decayed wood, or rotten flicks. 



This is nothing but fmooth, naked, feflile, convex 

 tubercles of the fize of pins heads, of a bright 

 red or pink color •, their fubftance foft and flelliy 

 when moifi, but folid and hard when dry, and 

 cuts fmooth. They bear a great refemblance to 

 the tuberculate Lichens, but have no cruft or 

 ground. Some authors imagine them to be the 

 rudiments of a fpecies of Agaric. We can 

 hardly affent to their opinion, as they feem al- 

 ways to maintain the fame conflant appearance. 

 We fhould be rather difpofed with Haller^ to 

 refer them to a new genus. See his HiJl.Jiirp. 

 Uelvet. No. 2189. where he denominates them 

 Spharia, &c. 



We compared our fpecimens with thofe of Dille- 

 nius at Oxford, and are therefore' certain of the 

 plant intended by that author, and that our de- 

 fcription is right. 



FUCUS. Gen. pL 1205. 

 MASC. VeJiaiU villis intertextas. 

 FEM. VeficuU adfperfs granis immerfis apicc 

 prominulis. 

 Semina folitaria. 



M m m 3 FUCUS 



