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15. T. foliicola Fckl. White above, brown below, scattered, Tremeiia. 

 crowded, somewhat sessile, granular, globose, gelatinous above, 



hard and dry below, when dry cup-shaped. 



Conidia on the apices of branched sterigmata, fusiform curved, simple, 

 hyaline, 6x2 mk. 



On the lower surface of leaves of Rubus fruticosus with Phrag- 

 midium. Castle Rising, 1882. March. 



Name folium, a leaf; colo, to inhabit. Fckl. Symb.Myc.p. 402. Grevil- 

 lea, vol. xiii. p. 50. Sacc. Fung. Ital. n. 1024. 



16. T. torta Berk. Yellow or orange, minute, 4-6 mm. (2-3 

 lin.) broad, round, depressed, gyroso-tuberculate. 



On dead wood, oak, &c. Common. Oct.-Dec. 



Name torqtteo, to twist. Twisted. Berk. Out. p. 288. C. Hbk. n. 1025. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 972. Fr. Hym. Eiir. p. 692. 



17. T. versicolor Berk. Orange, at length brown, minute, 

 orbicular. 



Tear-like, pallid when young. 



On Corticium nudum. Uncommon. 



Name versicolor, changeable in colour. Berk. Out. p. 288. C. Hbk. n. 

 1026. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 973. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 693. 



GENUS LVIII. Exidia (e|tS/, to exude. Exuding from the 

 receptacle). Fr. Syst. Myc. ii. p. 220. 



Distended with jelly when moist, 

 tremulous, somewhat marginate, pa- 

 pillose, with a gelatinous coloured 

 stratum covering the sporophores, 

 the spicules of which are erumpent 

 only at their apices. 



An easily recognised genus from 

 its habit and from the papillae. Fr. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 693. 



I. AURICULIN^E (auricula, the external 

 ear). Pezizoid. 



II. SPICULARI^E (spiculum, a little point, 

 spicule). Somewhat plane, unpolished be- 

 neath, very evidently glandular, here and XCVII. Exidia glandulosa. 

 there gyrose. Natural size. 



Exidia. 





