1. T r em ella frondosa (Fr. Ep. p. 588).
I I a b . O u dead wood, Gunn.
2. T rem ella fo liá c e a (Fr. Ep. p. 588).
H a b . On dead wood, Gunn, Archer.
3. T r em ella lu te sc en s (Fr. Ep. p. 588).
H a b . On dead wood, Archer.
4. T r em ella me sen ter ic a (Retz, Fr. Ep. p. 588).
H a b . On dead wood, Gunn, Archer.
Both spermatiferous and sporiferous.
5. T rem ella albida (Huds. Fr. Ep. p. 589).
H a b . On dead wood, Archer.
6 . T r em e lla o len s (Berk.); irregularis, gelatinosa, pallida, olens, sporis oblongis. (Ta b . CLXXXIII.
Fig. 5.)
H a b . On dead wood. Archer.
Irregular, dh'ty-white, incliumg to brown, effused, slightly lobed. Spores oblong, TfTo~WW length,
accompanied by veiy minute subglohose spcrmatia. Smell faint, unpleasant.—Wheu dry, fonning a shapeless mass,
like the young state of some Gasteromyceie. I have seen no globose or lobed sporophores in this species.—P late
CLXXXIII. Fig. 5; a, straeture; ¿, spores; c, spermatia:—all magnijied.
7. T r em ella v is c o sa (Berk, et Br. in Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 406).
H a b . On dead wood. Archer.
Gen. XXXI. EXIDIA, Fr.
Gelatinosa, tremula, submarginata, contextu fioccoso, subtus sterilis; hymenio papillato.
Distinguished at ouce from Tremella by the inferior surface being sterile, and the upper papillate. (Name from
exsudo, to ooze out.)
1. E x id ia g landulosa (Fr. Ep. p. 591).
H a b . On dead wood. Archer.
Gen. XXXII. HIRNEOLA, Fr.
Tremula, sed non gelatina distenta, subtus hispidula; hymenio lævi, distincto.
Separated from Exidia on account of its firmer substance and even liymenium. In most of the species the
barren surface is hispid, if. auricula is found in almost every part of the world. (Name from hirnea, a vessel.)
1. H im e o la Auricvila-Judae (Berk.). (Exidia, Fr.)
H a b . O u dead wood, Gnnn.
2. H im e o la v ite llin a (Mont. Syll. p. 182) ; pallida, orbicularis, uudulata, pusilla, stipite brevi
eompresso, sporis endochromate multiannulato.— Berk, in Fl. Antarct. p . 240. /. 1 6 4 ./. 3. Exidia vitellina,
Léo. (Ta b . CLXXXIII. Fig. 6 .)
H a b . On dead wood. Archer.
Pale honey-eoloured (orange or deep-yellow), 4 inch across, orbicular, umbilicate, undulated, even beneath.
Stem short, compressed, darker than the pileus. Spores inch long, hyaline, curved, obtuse above, rather
pointed at the base. Endochrome hyaline, divided into several annular masses, which axe sometimes again divided ;
th rmk flexoras, often sudden], cnrled over et the origin of the branehes.-This description is token front the Tes-
mamnn specnnens, ijnt the Fucgien and Chilian plants appear to bo tbe same thing, differing only in their brighter
colour.—P l a t e CLXXXIII. Pig. 6. structure of plant, i Í, spores, more or less t,
Gen. XX X III, DACIÍYMTCES, Ree».
Omnia Tfemella exceptis sporis septatis conidiis magnis spermatiisque e sporis oriundis.
The hjmcninm is more or less indeterminate, as in Tremella, but tbe spores are septate, and the spermatia
g low on le spores. Tlieic are also large conidia, formed from the articulations of the terminal branchlets. fName
from òoxpv, a tear, and /xu/ojs, a fungus)
1. Da c rymy c es d eliqu escens (Duby).
H a b . Ou dead wood, Archer.
The ceUs in the cui-ved spores vary from four to six.
2. Dac rymyc es mìltìnus (Berk.) ; pusilla, cinuabarina, gyroso-lobata. (Tab. CLXXXIII Fig 7 )
H a b , Ou hard, dry wood, Archer. °
Of a bnglit, red-orange, sliort, wavy, lobed. Spores oblongo-veniforai, at length 6-septate, - ? ___i__ ¡„ch
long. Sporophores swoUen.—The brighter colour, larger and more swollen sporophores, and 6-septate spores dis-
tuigmsh this species from D. deliguescens.-TEK',^ CLXXXIII. Fig. 7; a, plauts, nat. size; b, sporophoresc,
spore ■.—both magnified. ^ ^
r-T s c l e r o t i o i d e s (Berk.) ; albus, orbicularis, centro depressus, pezizmformis. (Tab.
OLAXXIii. F jg . 8 .)
H a b . On dead bark, J. B . M.
About 1 line broad, white, orbicular, depressed in the centre, almost earlilaginons. N «lem firm, ultimab,
apiee, of some of tbe branches slavate and septate.-TMs and the foftowing species agree in the septate tips of
some of tbe btanebes, coreespoinHng with the deeiduous tips in the aspoions form ot I). In neither
have 1 at present foimd true spores.-PiiTE CLXXXIII. Kg. 8 , a. plants, .at. ,ize, t, o, straeture, mae.iñed ■
d, ditto in D. aeriatus. ' J J ■
i . D a c rym y c e s s e r ia tu s (Berk.) ; erumpens, seriatns, albidus, sublntesceiis, irregularis, substra-
tosus.
H a b . On dead bark, Archer.
Forming rows of eonflneiit, small, dirty-wbite, snbeartilaginoiis patches, which exhibit within three or four
concentric lines of growth. Tips ot some ot the threads clavate and septate.
Gen. XXXIV. OOTATIAKIA, rUt.
Intesuneutum molliusculum, hand mgre solubile, trama e flbris bjssaceis intenta. Smrm splimriem
demum echinate. ^
A gcima of Truffles, allied to hut differing in its more easilv separable integnmeiit librms not
cellular trama, and globose spores. (Name from OUaviam, an Italian mycophibst.)
1. O c ta v ia n ia A r c h e r i (Berk.); obovata, pusilla, basi sterili satis magna, flbrillis nullis trama
compacta, sporis globosis ecliinatfe. ’
U a b . On sandy ground. Archer.
Obovate, 1 incb high. Teriii.m very thin, passing into a thick sterile base, from which proceeds a little