MYC0L0G1CAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 990 
States although it is probably not rare, but tremellaceous plants 
have not come into me as abundantly as I would wish. It grows on 
pine wood and is very close to Dacryopsis nuda, illustrated on page 
341, but Ditiola has a heterogeneous head and stipe and Dacryopsis 
has homogeneous. Ditiola radicata grows in great abundance on de¬ 
corticate pine in Sweden, It has a short stem, rooting in the host 
of a tough, sub-fleshy texture. It expand„s above and bears the yel¬ 
low, gelatinous hymenium which differs in color and texture. The 
color when mature and wet is pale ochre yellow but it is deep orange 
yellow when young. Basidia forked, typically of the Dacryomyces 
order. Spores pale yellow in mass, about 4 X 12, cylindrical, curved. 
There are two forms or conditions of Ditiola radicata. One with dis¬ 
tinct stalk which usually grows separate (Pig. 1764 ) the other with 
very short stalk and heads often confluent (Pig. 1766), The latter 
at first view resembles a Dacryomyces. Both forms are very common 
•in Sweden. 
While Ditiola radicata is the most abundant tremellaceous 
plant represented in Pries 1 herbarium, it does not occur in his last 
work, Hym. Europaei. The reason is that Pries in his early days 
thought it was a Discomycete and that impression was never eradicated 
from his mind. Although it is supposed to have been first illustrat¬ 
ed from Lusatia, it is evidently rare in southern Europe. Schroeter 
includes it apparently on the old A. <& S. record, gullet's record 
is apparently based on "Pernsjonia luteoalba"', a quite different plant. 
Bourdot' s record is also surely "Pemsjonia luteoalba" and not Ditiola 
radicata in the sense of Pries at least, whatever A. & S.'s figure 
may represent, While this figure is doubtful on account of its shape 
and large size, I believe that Pries correctly interpreted it and 
the French botanists have it wrong. Berkeley's record of Ditiola 
radicata "on fir" is the only one we have noticed in England and is 
probably the source of Smith's remarkable habitat, "amongst pine 
needles." Our figures are natural size and enlarged, the latter show¬ 
ing the different texture of the stem and hymenium on which the genus 
Ditiola is based. 
Since the above was written we notice where Father Bourdot 
corrects his determination from Ditiola.radicata to Ditiola luteoalba. 
The plant is not cogeneric with Ditiola in my opinion (being homo¬ 
geneous ) and while we have no doubt it is "Pemsjonia luteoalba" it is 
embarrassing to use Fries' genus Pemsjonia for Pries records the 
basidia as "globose, I have no doubt he was mistaken and that it is 
the same plant as Guepinia femsjoniana of Brefeld's paper and that 
its correct classification is Guepinia luteoalba. It is Ditiola 
conformis of Karsten, Ditiola Ulicis of English books. The genus 
Fernsjonia might be maintained on the character of a superior hymenium 
as all other Guepinias have inferior hymenii. (Compare Guepinia 
Peziza, page 921\ ) 
TREMELLA LUTESCENS FROM PROF, H. C. BEARDSLEE, FLORIDA (Fig. 
1767).- Usually in the spring of the year a pale yellow Tremella 
comes on beech, oak and apple. This specimen, however, was cn cedar. 
The color is paler than straw yellow of Ridgway. At first it is cere- 
brine (Pig. 1767) but when well developed mor d foliaceous, as shown 
in Fig, 1768 from Prof. Beardslee. Basidia usually abundant but im¬ 
mature in Beardslee's specimen, globose, 14 mic, and filled with yellow 
granular matter. Spores ovoid, apiculate, 6 X Q mic. 
