CRYPTOGAMIA ALGIE. 901 



purpurea. 5. T. fubglobofa fefTilis folitaria glabra. Sp. pi. 1616. 

 ' - (Billen.mufc. t. iS.f. 6.) 



Little red-knobb'd Tremella. An^Us. 



Upon the bark of decayed wood, or rotten flicks. 



This is nothing but fmooth, nakeJ, fefTile, convex 

 • tubercles of the fize of pins heads, of a bright 

 red or pink color ; their fubilance foft and fleihy 

 when moid, but folid and hard when dry, and 

 cuts fmooth. They bear a great refciViblance ro 

 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 alTent to their opinion, as they feem al- 



ways to maintain the fame conftant appearance. 

 We fhould be rather difpofed with Ilallery to 

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

 HeJvet. No. 2189, where he denominates them 

 Spharia, Sec. 



We compared our fpecimens with thofe of Dilie- 

 nius at Oxford, and are therefore certain of the 

 plant intended by that author, and that our de- 

 fcription is right, 



FUCUS. Gen. pi. 1205. 

 MASC. Ve/icuU viilis intertexts. 

 FEM. VeficidcC adfperfas granis immerfis apice 

 prominulis. 

 Semina folitaria. 

 ' ' M m m 3 FUCUS 



