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Tremella myricce , Berk. & Cke., Grev., vi, p. 133; Sacc. Sy 11., vi, 
No. 8422. On bark of Myrica and Persea , Gainesville, Fla. (Rav.). 
(Type in Herb. Berk., Kew, No. 4300.) 
Forming thin, foliaceous expansions when dry, 1-4 centimetres across. 
The minutely scabrid surface when dry is characteristic. 
Dacrymyces syringicola, B. & G. Erumpent, pale or slightly 
convex, surface almost even or tuberculated, watery gray or whitish, 
surrounded by the ruptured epidermis; basidia large, spherical, with 
four stout, elongated sterigmata, spores colorless, cylmdric-oblong, 
curved, with an oblique apiculus at the base, 32-35 by 8-9//. 
Dacrymyces syringicola , B. & 0., Grev., Yol. n, p. 20; Sacc. Syll., vr ? 
No. 8504. 
Dacrymyces destructor , B. & O., Grev., Yol. n, p. 20; Sacc., Syll. vi, 
No. 8505. Both types in Herb. Berk., Kew., Nos. 4324 and 4328. 
On Syringa and on branches of pear, to which it is very destructive, 
lower Carolina. Rav. 
The only distinction between the two species, as pointed out by 
Berkeley, depends on the amount of tuberculation of the surface, and 
even this is not constant. The furcate spores alluded to by Berkley 
are portions of the septate hyplme that have become free. Circular or 
elliptical, often numerous, 3-4 millimetres across, resembling lenticels 
when dry and contracted. 
Tremella dependens, B. & C. Pendulous, elongato-clavate, at¬ 
tached by a slender stem-like base, mucilaginous, pale dingy yellow; the 
central portion consisting of exceedingly thin liyphae immersed in 
mucilage; towards the even surface the hyphse become thicker and 
form a compact layer which produces basidia at every part of the sur¬ 
face; basidia spherical with four elongated sterigmata; spores elliptic- 
oblong, smooth, colorless, 7 by 3-3.5 ja. 
Tremella dependens , B. & C., Grev., Yol. II, p.19; Sacc. Syll., Yol. 
Yi, No. 8396. Hanging down from under side of rotten poplar (Lirio- 
dendron) logs after rain, Alabama. Peters. 
The following note accompanied the specimens: 
“Sack-like, elongated, round, subclavate, subtransluceut, thin, 
watery, mucilaginous, dissolving when the thin outer skin is broken, 
pale, watery, greenish-yellow, £-1 inch long.” The green tinge is due 
to minute algae. 
Tremella rufo lutea, B. & C. A very remarkable form, attached 
laterally by a broad base, imbricated, resembling St er e-um hirsutum 
in habit; more or less reniform or semicircular, margin sometimes 
lobed, yellow brown or amber, translucent when moist, upper surface 
irregularly nodulose and with a tendency to form concentric zones due 
to the arrangement of the nodules, under surface almost smooth; sub¬ 
stance thick, very cartilaginous, central portion composed of much- 
branched hyplne with thick gelatinous walls; toward the outside, above 
and below, the liyphae are dense and parallel, but showing no trace of 
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