406 Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 



decayed trunks of elder and ash. Woodnewton^ Norths., Dec. 7, 

 1852. Forming large fascicles with a creeping white root. 



724. Tremella vesicaria, Bull. t. 427. f. 3; Eng. Bot. t.2451. 

 On the ground amongst grass. 



This species was omitted in the ' English Flora/ because no 

 specimen had been seen, and it was asserted by Fries to be an 

 Alga. We have, however, lately received the species as collected 

 in Pennsylvania by Dr. Michener, and the structure is that of a 

 true Tremella with globose sporophores and broad oblong spores, 

 •0004 inch long, '00025 broad. We have also a fragment of 

 the specimens figured in ' Eng. Bot.' 



725. Tremella indecorata, Sommerf. Lapp. p. 306. Bursting 

 through the bark of fallen branches and pea-sticks. Penzance, 

 J. Ralfs, Esq. 



Dark pitchy brown when dry ; dirty cinereous when swollen 

 with moisture. This is, we believe, Bonorden's T. albida. We 

 have not seen the true fruit. 



726. Tremella versicolor, n. s. Minuta guttseformis aurantia 

 demum fuscescens. 



Parasitic on Corticium nudum on decorticated trees. Thame, 

 Dr. Ayres; Apethorpe, Feb. 23, 1850; Batheaston. Forming 

 minute, orange, tear-like, convex spots on the hymenium of the 

 Corticium, paler when young, at length assuming a rufous tinge. 

 In young plants the delicate hyaline threads are terminated 

 by four globules which ultimately branch, forming moniliform 

 threads as in Bonorden's Hormomyces. Obovate vesicles also 

 occur in parts, but we have not seen the pei'fect spores. The 

 general appearance is like that of Tremella guttata, Bonorden. 



727. Tremella viscosa, (P.) Corticium viscosum, P. Obs. 2. p. 18. 

 This species, which is not uncommon, has the true structure of 

 a Tremella and cannot remain in the genus Corticium. We find 

 globose sporophores bearing three or four elongated sterigmata 

 and oblong, obliquely attached spores, which sometimes contain 

 one or two nuclei. 



Plate XV. tig. 4.- Portion of the hymenium with the globose sporo- 

 phores, one of which bears three, and another four fertile sterigmata sur- 

 mounted by oblong spores. 



728. Dacrymyces deliquescens (Bull. t. 455. fig. 3). On dead 

 boughs of holly, Batheaston, Jan. 1851 ; on larch, Wothorpe, 

 Norths., Aug. 23, 1853. 



Our plant has at present occurred only with the septate spores 

 figured by Tulasne and the strong threads from which they rise, 

 without any of those which break up into distinct oblong articu- 

 lations. It is, in fact, exactly what Bonorden figures under the 



