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abundant and conspicuous, and most of the numerous branches 

 originate near a cross wall. 



9. Tremella sparassoidea Lloyd 

 Plate io, fig. 3 



On August 25, the writer collected a large Tremella on the 

 ground in a deciduous woods near State College. It was assigned 

 tentatively to Tremella vesicaria and sent to Mr. C. G. Lloyd 

 under that name. The fungus differs from that species, how- 

 ever, principally in having acute erect and somewhat fimbriate 

 lobes instead of the large blunt finger-like ones characteristic of 

 T. vesicaria. Mr. Lloyd proposes to describe this as a new spe- 

 cies as named above. The entire plant formed a mass about 15 

 cm. in diameter and 10 cm. high and was nearly white in color. 

 In consistency it was more cartilaginous than gelatinous, prob- 

 ably in part accounted for by the dry weather of the few days 

 previous. The basidia are of the usual longitudinally divided 

 type, averaging about 9 X 12-14 ^ and with sterigmata up to 20 /x 

 long. All stages in the development of the basidia are easily 

 found in crushed preparations. The spores are somewhat ir- 

 regular in shape, from elongate-ellipsoid to broadly inaequilater- 

 ally ellipsoid though usually narrower and sometimes slightly 

 apiculate at one end. They measure 8-10 X 4.5-6 /a. A speci- 

 men is preserved in the Lloyd museum and in the Overholts 

 Herbarium. 



In "1910, Gilbert noted and figured a plant from Wisconsin 9 

 that I have no doubt from his photograph should be referred 

 here. He included it as a variety of Tremella reticulata, a name 

 applied by him to the plant here called T. vesicaria. My photo- 

 graph of T. sparassoidea shows a striking resemblance to the 

 one published by Gilbert. 



10. Tremella vesicaria Fr. 



This species was collected in abundance in a grassy woodland 

 pasture in 1915, but had not since been observed until a speci- 



9 Studies on the Tremellineae of Wisconsin. Trans. Wise. Acad. Sci., 

 Arts, and Let. 16: 1137-1170. 1910. 



