On elder and elm. Common. [United States.]
1-3 in. or more broad ; upper substance corrugated, the plaits branching
from the middle part, where they are strongest, and somewhat convoluted,
BO as to give an idea of a human ear ; when the plant grows on a perpendicular
stump or tree it turns upwards.—AmilA. (Fig. 97.)
Gen. 5 2 . NÆ M A T E I .IA , Fr.
Nucleus solid, heterogeneous,
covered with a gelatinous stratum,
which is everywhere clothed
withthehymenium.—Der/l. Outl.
p. 290. {Fig. 98.)
K g . 9 8 .
1 0 3 3 . N sem a te lia en c ep h a la . Fr. “ Flesh-coloured Nematelia.”
Subsessile, pulvinate, plicato-rugose, pallid flesb colour, at
length brownisb.—F r .E p ic r .p . 591. Willd. Bot. M a g .i.t. 4, f.
14. Eng. F I .y .p . 219.. A n n .N .H .n o .292. Berk. Outl.p. 290.
Berk. exs. rao. 291.
On pine rails. Rare. Locb Lomond, Wales.
[Mid. & Up. Carolina.]
Solitary or clustered, more or less pulvinate ; 4-6 lines broad and thick,
firm, when fresh of a dead flesh colour, when dry reddish-brown; nucleus
large, hard, w hite; base stem-like.—Dries. (Fig. 98-)
1 0 3 4 . N æ m a te lia n u c le a ta . Fr. “ Nucleate Næmatelia.”
Sessile, flat, somewbat gyrose, yellowisb-brown .■ ■Fr.Epicr.p.
592. Bex'k. Outl.p. 290.
On rotten wood. Rare. [United States.]
Sometimes confounded with Tremella albida, from which it difièrs iu the
presence of a small white nnolens. —M. J .B .
1 0 3 5 . Na ematelia v i ie s c e n s . Corda. “ Greenish Naematelia.”
Small, roundish, depressed, gyroso-tuberculate, or quite even,
green.—Ann. N .H . no. 374. Fl. Dan. t. 1857,/. 1. Dacrymtjces
virescenSjFr. F pic r.p. 592. Corda. iii.f. 90. Berk. Outl.p. 290.
On furze brancbes. Common.
Gen. 5 3 .
TREMELLINI.
DACRYMYCES, Nees.
Homogenous,gelatinous. Conidia
disposed in moniliform
rows ; sporophores clavate, at
length bifurcate.—Berk. Outl.p.
290. {Fig. 99.)
Fig. 99.
1 0 3 6 . D a c r y m y c e s v i o l a c e u s . Fr. “ Violet Dacrymyces.”
Small, compact, somewhat compressed, gyrose, violet.—Fr.
Epicr.p. 592. Eng. FI.y .p. 219. Berk. Outl.p. 290.
On trunks of pear trees. Rare. [Mid. Carolina.]
Erumpent, gregarious ; 3-4 lines long, 1 line thick, black when dry.—
Fries. Very much like the tartar of porfc-wine.—AeiAoe».
1 0 3 7 . D a c r y m y c e s s e b a c e u s . B .^ JB r. “Waxy Dacrymyces.”
Wbitisb, waxy, subrotund ; spores ovate-triangnlar ; filaments
variously branched, clavate above, here and tbere resolved into
globose conidia.—Br. Bath. Trans. 1870,7». 96.
On asb and maple twigs. Winter.
Conspicuous in wet weather, 2-4 lines broad ; spores ('0005 X '0003 in.)
•0125 X •0075 mm. Besides the spores other bodies occur resembling those
of a Fusisporiam, which appear to grow from the same threads, but may possibly
he parasitic on the Dacrymyces.—G. E. B. (Fig. 99.)
1 0 3 8 . D a c r y m y c e s d e l i q u e s c e n s . Bub. “ Yellow Dacrymyces.”
Pulvinate, sligbtly waved, and plicate yellow. Spores trisep-
taia.— Bull. t. 455, f . 3. Price, f . 58. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1853, xix. t.
12, 13. D itio la n u d a ,B .4 B r .A n n .N .H .s e r .2 , v o l.ii.p .2 6 7 ,t.9,
/ . 4, «0.375 /w o . 728. SeptocoUa adpressa. Bon. f . 274. Berk.
Outl.p. 290.
On fallen pine branches. [Up- Carolina.]
Sometimes on pine rails, as well as D. stillatus, bnt easily distinguished
from that by its larger size, more cæspitose h abit, and paler yellowish colour.
I t often resembles very much a cæspitose, waved, yellow Peziza, growing in
clusters, sometimes an inch or more in length. The
he spores are triseptate,
sliglitly curved and obtuse.