MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 991 
Later in the season one finds a deep orange Tremella 
(mesenterica.) about the same form, spores and basidia but of much 
deeper color. I have seen it claimed that Tremella lutescens and 
Tremella mesenterica are seasonal forms of the same species. I can 
not say to the contrary but I do not believe it. We present a photo¬ 
graph of Professor Beardslec's specimens, one showing the cerebrine 
condition and the other an unusually well developed foliaceous state. 
Both are the same color, 
TREMELLA MICROSPORA FROM MISS A. V, DUTHIE, SOUTH AFRICA 
(Fig. 1769 ).- Thin, soft, applanate-foliaceous, amphigenous, avellan- 
eous in color. Basidia 16-80, hyaline, globose, imbedded, cruciate 
parted. Spores subglobose, 3 l/2 - 4 mic., hyaline. 
From the general appearance we thought we were dealing with 
an Auricularia until we examined it. It is, excepting color, the 
shape of the "Jew’s ear". The unusually small, abundant spores we 
thought must be conidial until we noted the basidia were ripe and 
surely they are basidial. Miss Duthie notes color when fresh as 
"cream, reddish in oarts.” The soaked plant very nearly matches 
avellaneous of Ridgway. 
GUEPINIA SPATHULARIA FROM PROF. H. C. BBARDSLEE, FLORIDA 
(Fig. 1771).- We present (Fig, 1770) an enlargement of a young 
specimen showing the hymenium on one (the lower) side and that the 
plant is a typical Guepinia. Usually the plant grows more erect and 
the lower or upper sides are not sc patent. The usual view that 
Guepinia may have its hymenium on the upper side is a mistake as 
pointed out in detail in our article on Guepinia Peziza (p«92l). 
Prof. Beardslec’s Florida collection is such a well developed speci¬ 
men of Guepinia spathularia that it is unusual in appearance and 
we present a photograph (Fig. 1771). 
CYTIDIA SIMULANS FROM MISS A. V. DUTHIE, SOUTH AFRICA (Fig. 
1772).- Discoid, concave, lJ*- - 2 cm. in diameter. Texture gelati¬ 
nous. Surface uneven. Color pa.le brown. Upp^r surface white ( when 
dry) with matted, hyaline hairs (under the lens. ) Hymenium on under 
(?) side only. Basidia cylindrical, club shaped, thickened above, 
ends obtuse, about 6 mic. broad, probably imbedded but projecting, 12 
-16 mic. Sterigmata short. Spores long, straight or slightly curved, 
hyaline, 5 X 10-22, often with two small guttae. Conidial spores, 
rod-shaped, hyaline, straight, 1X8, This is about the color, size 
and appearance of Auricularia cornea and there is a strong contrast 
between the upper and lower surfaces. These terms used in the des¬ 
cription are assuming that it grew on the under side of a branch, 
which I havD no way of knowing. In old days this would have been an 
Exidia, but classification of tremellaceous plants is now based on 
the basidia and these do not differ from the ordinary homobasidia, 
clavate, of the usual fleshy fungus. It is, however, an unusual type 
of basidia to be found in a truly tremellaceous plant. 
EXIDIA BEARDSLEEI FROM W. C. COKER, NORTH CAROLINA (Fig.1773) 
Sessile, cushion shape, gyrose, lobed. Color of a raisin. Flesh 
same color. Papillae none. Basidia globose, 8-10 mic. very pale 
