Tremellacese 

 Sub-Family Tremellineae. 



TREMEL'LADill. 



Tremo to tremble. 



Distended with jelly when moist, tremulous, without a defined mar- Tremeiia. 

 gin and without nipple-like elevations. Spore-bearing processes globose, 

 becoming divided into four parts, each division producing an elongated 

 free point terminating in a simple spore. Fries. 



Distinguished by its peculiarly convoluted habit and jelly-like sub- 

 stance, which is more or less inclined to be cartilaginous. 



Exidia, similar in form, is separated by possessing minute nipple-like 

 elevations and Hirneola by its distinct difference in form. 



Generally growing on dead wood ; some species are found on trees 

 and others on the ground, etc. 



Old tradition, in many countries, attests that the Tremellas are Fairy 

 bread, and T. albida the choicest baking. Pretty, indeed, must have 

 been the feasts when piles of such purity filled the board, and the bril- 

 liant Pezizae were wassail cups. 



They are better suited to Fairy appetites than to those of mortals ; 

 being watery their nutritive value is small. Nevertheless they have 

 dainty flavor. 



So far as tested no suspicion rests upon Tremellae. 



ANALYSIS OF TRIBES. 



MESENTERIFOR'MES (Gr. the mesentery). Page 530. 

 Gelatinous inclining to cartilaginous, foliaceous, naked. 



CEREBRIN/E (cerebnun, the brain). Page 530. 

 Firm, then pulpy, somewhat pruinose with the spores. 



CRUSTA'CE^E (crusta, a crust). 

 Diffused, becoming plane. 



TUBERCULIFOR'MES (tuberculum, a little tuber). 

 Small, somewhat erumpent. 



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