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CRYPTOGAMIA. ALGiE. Tremella. 
Plaited Rusty Tremella. This new species was discovered by Mr. 
Crowe, growing on dead wood in wet weather, in winter, at Lakenham, 
near Norwich. E.) 
Tr. nqs'toc. Olive-coloured; plaited and waved. 
Bull. 174. and 184— (Boffin. Crypt . 1. 8. 3— E. Bot. 461. E.)— Bill. 10. 14— 
Mich. 67. I—FI. Dan . 885. I—Gars. 393. B. 
Greenish or yellowish. Sub-gelatinous, consisting of several leaves vari¬ 
ously Ipbed and waved, slightly adhering to the ground by a central 
root; the substance very thin. It varies in colour, but is usually some 
shade of olive. Mr. Woodward. Thin, skinny dark brown and brittle 
when dry. Dill. Micheli describes the seeds as lying in the form of 
little strings of beads coiled up within the folds of the plant,' and only to 
be discovered by the microscope. The dark green sort consists of an 
olive-coloured transparent jelly between the two coats, which are more 
opake and approach to blackness. The outer surface of these coats is 
studded ivith conical papilla, which probably contain the seeds.—It is 
supposed by the country people to be the remains of a meteor or falling 
star. It has lately been asserted that this is of animal origin, but with¬ 
out sufficient reason. After very severe frost, I have frequently found 
a gelatinous substance, which from a careless observation might pass for 
a Tremella, but it is the remains of frozen, frogs. This substance does 
not shrivel up in dry weather as the Tremella does, nor is it plaited and 
waved; and generally some of the bones of the frog may be found in it. 
After the severe winter of 1789, I found great quantities of these on the 
edges, and in the water of ponds. 
(It may also be remarked, that the one substance gives out on burning a 
vegetable, the other an animal odour. E.j 
Star-slough. ( Nostoc commune. Agard. Hook. E.) Meadows and 
pastures after rain, and gravel walks. Frequently on gravel. Mr. Wood- 
ward. (Found amongst grass, at the bottom of the rookery, Edgbaston, 
by Miss C. Withering, who could not discover any thing like a root. 
On Spoonbed Hill, Gloucestershire, and among the mosses on a damp and 
shaded cottage roof, apparently rootless. Mr. O. Roberts. On the walks 
of the walled garden at the Rookery, Brislington, near Bristol, during 
the damp weather of autumn. E.) A. Jan.—Dec.* 
Tr. granula^ta. Green, spherical, clustered, containing a fluid. 
E. Bot. 
E. Bot. 324— FI. Ban. 705—Bill. 10. 17 
From a greenish mucilaginous ground, of no determinate figure, arise little 
heads, crowded together, green, at first sessile, but when older sup¬ 
ported on short pedicles. These heads are globular, hollow, filled with 
a watery fluid. When this fluid is wasted by the heat of the sun, or lost 
by the bursting of the heads, the top of the globe subsides, and seems 
hollow, or as if cut off. Skin of the heads thin, shining, when ripe chang¬ 
ing to grey and then to whitish. Dill. 55. 
(Clustered Granular Tremella. E.) Sides of the ditches and in dried 
up ditches between Newington and Hackney. Dill. About Charlton, 
Kent. Huds. Near the edges of the ponds and ditches on the road to 
Histon, Cambridgeshire. Relh. Suppl. 1. 26. n. 1033. A. Oct. — May. 
* (The gelatinous matter produced by this Tremella, when smeared or the hands, 
has been found to emit a phosphorescent lightv Gent. Mag, v. 14. p. 157. E.) 
