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CRYPTOGAMIA. ALGiE. Tremella. 
when dry. Flat underneath; above raised irregularly into veins, and 
set with black tubercle-like dots. Dill. 54. Waved and plaited, thick, 
pulpy, jelly-like after rains, never membranaceous; destitute of hairs. 
Flail. Plist. 2038. 
Var. 2. jusca. Semi-transparent, brown. 
Bull. 406. B. 
The plant occupies an irregular circular form, from one to two inches 
diameter. Substance like a stiff jelly of a dirty brown colour, divided 
down to the root. Lobes waved, plaited, three-tenths of an inch broad, 
about one-twentieth of an inch in thickness. When soaked in water, it 
gives out freely a colour like that of the deepest Madeira wine. 
On the broken branch of a horn-beam, on the pool dam, Edgbaston Park. 
26th June, 1792. 
Witches’ Butter. Trunks of trees. Common on fallen wood and dead 
sticks, in woods. Mr. Woodward. A. May. Sept.—Jan. 
Tr. sarcoi'des. Red purple, either lobed, plaited and curled; or 
hemispherical, or club-shaped, or approaching to funnel-shaped. 
(E. Bot. 2450. E.) — Bolt. 101. 2 —Schceff. 323 and 324>—Jacq. Misc. ii. 22— 
Batsch. 53. 
Grows in clusters. Stem sometimes very distinct, a quarter of an inch high, 
supporting a kind of convex pileus three-eighths of an inch in diameter, 
with a dimple in the centre. Whole plant of a fine reddish purple ; 
gelatinous and semi-transparent. 
(Flesh-like Tremella. E.) On rotten wood. Nov.—April. 
Tr. cinnabarPna. Dark pinky red: gelatinous, stiff; globular but 
compressed: surface roughish. 
Bull. 455. 2. 
Very small, growing in clusters, otherwise a single plant would hardly be 
distinguished by the naked eye. 
(Minute Cinnabar-coloured Lichen. E.) First mentioned as a native 
by Mr. Relhan, who found it on Hinton Moor, growing on mosses and 
other herbaceous plants. Bulliard says, it particularly affects to grow 
upon the Hypnum sericeum. 
Tr. sabi'njE. Tawny, velvet-like, irregularly tooth-shaped. 
(Schmid. 66 — llqffm. Crypt. 1 . 7. 2 — E. Bot. 710. E.)— MicK. 88. 5— Gled. 1 . 
Clavaria f. 6. 
Growing in clusters. Substance when fresh, jelly-like, strap-shaped, lopped, 
more than an inch long. Dicks. An inch high, orange-coloured or tawny, 
gelatinous, pulpy, in clusters, simple, awl-shaped, but compressed, rather 
pyramidal, or with two horns; sometimes with blunt teeth at the sides. 
When dried leathery but brittle, opake, darker coloured, recovering its 
former appearance when soaked in water. Seeds an orange-coloured dust 
which it throws out as it dries. Jacq. Coll. ii. 174. 
(Savine Tremella. E.) T. juniperina according to Web. 277. but it does 
not agree with the description in FI. Lapp. Dicks. On living branches 
of savine. (In a rainy season abundant on savine bushes in the garden 
at the Larches. 
Var. 2. Of a deeper orange colour, firmer substance, and more regular 
dog-tooth shape than the above. This variety is undoubtedly the T. 
