FEMSJONIA. 



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GExNUS LIX.— Hirneola (/lirnea, a jug). Fr. Fung. Nat. p. 24. Himeoia. 



Gelatinous inclining to cartilaginous, soft when moist, and 

 tremulous but not distended with 

 jelly ; excipulum (cavity) cup - 

 shaped, when dry coriaceo - horny, 

 reviving when moistened, but scarce- 

 ly swelling. The hard skin which 

 forms the hymenium superior, dis- 

 coid, of a different colour from the 

 excipulum, and when soaked for a 

 considerable time admitting of being 

 separated from it entire. 



Sporophores not involved in jelly ; 

 spores oblong, curved. 



A remarkable genus, clearly dis- 

 tinct alike from Auricularia and 

 Exidia. Fr. Hym Eur. p. 695. *,„„,,, ,,. , . , «y j 



J f vj XCVIII. Hirneola anricula-Judce. 



One-third natural size. 



1. H. auricula-Judse Berk. — Thin, 

 concave, flexuous, at length black, venoso-plicate without and 

 within, tomentose and olive-cinereous beneath. 



On elder and elm. Frequent. March-Aug. 



Plant 2.5-7.5 cent - ( I- 3 i n -) broad. Upper substance corrugated, the plaits 

 branching from the middle part where they are strongest and somewhat con- 

 voluted, so as to give an idea of a human ear. When the plant grows on a 

 perpendicular stump or tree it turns upwards. Eng. Bot. Name— Jew's-ear. 

 Berk. Out. p. 289. t. 18./. 7. C. Hbk. n. 1032. S. My col. Scot. n. 978. Fr. 

 Hytn. Ear. p. 695. Hussey i. /. 53. — Bolt. t. 107. Mich. Gen. t. 66. /. 1. 

 B. more even. Berk. Out. t. 18./. 7. C. reddish-fuscous. Bull. t. 427./ 2. 

 Eng. Bot. t. 2^j. 



Genus LX. — Femsjonia (from Femsjo). 



Veg. Scand. p. 341. 



Fr. Summ. 



Femsjonia. 



Cup-shaped, distended with firm jelly, different on the two 

 sides, disc thick, heterogeneous, even and not glandular. Sporo- 

 phores immersed, globose, the oblong spores curved. Growing 

 on wood, erumpent, briglitly coloured. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 695. 



No British species. 



