Gilbert—Tremellce of Wisconsin. 
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Specimens have been found differing somewhat in the color 
of the pileus and also in size of the spores. Many are very light 
brown when moistened and dry down to a much darker brown. 
Quite often they are found growing in tufts but usually singly 
scattered along the length of the branches of oaks and other de¬ 
ciduous trees. 
2. Var. ? PI. 1. Pig. 2: A form with very much the same 
general shape as above, but about half the size, having a deep 
rich wine colored upper surface and an almost black velvety un¬ 
der surface and the whole very much thickened throughout. I 
was unable to secure spores from this form and so cannot say 
positively whether it is a new variety, although I feel confident 
that it is not an immature form of the common Jews ear. 
Pound on decaying branches of oak. Madison. 
Tachaphantium Bref. (Unters. VII p. 18) 
3. Tachaphantium sp ? Figs. 3-4. This is a form which 
seems to belong in Brefelds genus Tachaphantium but I find no 
species to which it can be assigned. It may be described as 
follows: Small, % cm. by 1/3 cm. of a crystalline yellowish 
appearance when moist and shrinking only slightly upon drying. 
Stipe about % the diameter of the upper portion and slightly 
darker in color. The hvmenial layer is rounded hemispherical 
and glistening powdery. Basidia like those of Auricularia 
Auricula-judae and spores of about the same shape but slightly 
smaller. On decaying stump of larch. Madison. 
Exidia. Pries (Systema II. p. 220). 
Fungus distended with jelly, tremulous, somewhat marginate, 
papillose; a colored gelatinous stratum encloses the basidia the 
sterignata of which are erumpent only at the apex; spores, 
curved.' 
4. Exidia glandulosa Buliiard. PI. Pigs. 5-6. 
Flattened, thick, gelatinous, becoming blackish, disc, covered 
with minute papillae, below greyish and subtomentose; spores 
r eh if or m 12 x 14/x by 4 x 5. 
This form is found forming very irregular patches on decay¬ 
ing stems and branches of many of our more common deciduous 
