62 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Tremella vesicaria. Bull. 



Gelatinous but externally firm, soft and bladdery within, 

 mucli contorted, pallid or yellowish ; spores 10 X 6 /x. 



Tremella vesicaria, Bulliard, t. 427, f. 3 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 345. 



On the ground. Erect, tufts reaching 2 in. high and 

 broad, or even more ; brownish when old. 



Sect. III. Crustaceae. 

 Effused and applanate. 



Tremella viscosa. Berk. 



Small, depressed, undulate, white then grey, spores broadly 

 elliptical, 7-9 x 6 /*. 



Tremella viscosa, Berk., Outl., p. 288 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 347. 



Thelephora viscosa. Berk., Engl. El., vol. v. p. 171. 



On dead wood. Eorming grey, adpressed, small gelatinous 

 patches. When dry resembling a thin, closely adpressed 

 skin of a brown colour. 



Tremella epigaea. B. & Br. 



Gelatinous, effused and depressed, undulated and con- 

 torted, thin, white, at length pruinose; spore subglobose, 

 6 X 4/i. 



Tremella epigaea. Berk, and Broome, Ann. Nat. Hist., np. 

 373 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 348. 



On the naked soil. Eorming a thin, white stratum. 



Sect. IV. Tuherculiformes. 

 Small, suberumpent. 



Tremella indecorata. Somm. 



Gelatinous, erumpent, sessile, rounded, moist, opaque, 

 plicate, dingy-olive, becoming blackish-brown when dry; 

 spores globose, 7-9 /j. diameter. 



Tremella indecorata, Sommerf. Lapp., p. 306 ; Cke., Hdbk 

 p. 346. 



On willow, poplar, &c. Erumpent, 3-4 lines across, dirty- 

 grey, livid, or olive-brown, pitch-brown when dry. 



Tremella moriformis. Berk. 

 Sessile,- erumpent, roundish or oblong, sinuated, black, 



