Figure 402.—Tremella albida. Natural size.
Albida, whitish. This plant is very common in the woods about Chillicothe, and everywhere in the state where beech, sugar-maple, and hickory prevail.
It is whitish, becoming dingy-brown when dry; expanded, tough, undulated, even, more or less gyrose, pruinose. It breaks the bark and spreads in irregular and scalloped masses; when moist it has a gelatinous consistency, a soft and clammy touch, yielding like a mass of gelatine. Its spores are oblong, obtuse, curved, marked with tear-like spots, almost transparent, 12–14×4–5µ. The specimen represented in Figure 402 was found near Sandusky and photographed by Dr. Kellerman.
Tremella mycetophila. Pk.
Figure 403.—Tremella mycetophila.
Mycetophila is from two Greek words, mycetes, fungi; phila, fond of. The plant is so called because it is found growing upon other fungi.