From July to December, 1898, tufts five inches in diameter grew from an oak stump close by the writer’s cottage at Mt. Gretna, Pa. These tufts dried, and revived after rain into a gelatinous condition. They were nibbled at raw, and several were cooked. Tufts were found elsewhere in the same woods and eaten by others. They were unanimously approved. The species dries hard, like thin glue, but is darker. A dried piece swells in the mouth, grows tough, and has but little taste. Flavor develops in cooking.
T. lutes´cens Pers.—luteus, yellow. Yellowish, cespitose, small, cluster ½-1 in. broad, very soft, circling in wavy, undulating folds; lobes entire, naked.
Inclining to be fluid. Whitish when young. Stevenson.
Spores subglobose, 12–16µ diameter Massee.
North Carolina, common. Curtis. On decaying branches, stumps, etc. July to February.
It dries and revives, or swells with moisture, very soft and tremulous.
Edible. Leuba.
II.—Cerebrinæ. Firm then pulpy, etc.
