- Tremella—Immarginate. Hymenium universal.
- Exidia—Margined. Hymenium superior.
- Hirneola—Cartilaginous, ear-shaped, attached by a point.
Tremella. Fr.
This plant is so called because the entire plant is gelatinous, tremulous, and without a definite margin, and also without nipple-like elevations.
Tremella lutescens. Fr.
Yellowish Tremella. Edible.
This is a small gelatinous cluster, tremulous, convoluted, in wavy folds, pallid, then yellowish, with its lobes crowded and entire. Quite common over the state. It is found on decaying limbs and stumps from July to winter. It dries during absence of rain but revives and becomes tremulous during wet weather. It is called lutescens because of its yellowish color.
Tremella mesenterica. Retz.
Mesenterica is from two Greek words meaning the mesentery. The plant varies in size and form, sometimes quite flat and thin but generally ascending and strongly lobed; plicated, and convoluted; gelatinous but firm; lobes short, smooth, covered with a frost-like bloom by the white spores at maturity. The spores are broadly elliptical. Common in the woods on decaying sticks and branches.
Tremella albida. Hud.
The Whitish Tremella. Edible.