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CRYPTOGAMIA, FUNGI, Pezizas: Stemless, 
wales tlod 41 A GASES AA eI 
When young circular or oblong, and more closed ; when fully 
gtown more expanded and irregular, when past maturity irregu- 
larly cushion-like with a pit in an imperfeet disk, the edge with 
small lobes; lobes short, broadish. » Edge between the elevated 
lobes between depressed: and indented, and therefore  appearin 
curled. Substance horny or semi-transparent, ash-coloured, 
when moistish, the whole dark, but white when it begins to 
dry, and when dried membranaceous dirty white. Batscu. 
Tremella cinerea, Bot. art. ed. iii. Inside’of decayed wil- 
lows and stumps of trees, = co Ne July— Aug. 
y : ia af +, fi ee 5 oo Seg ak 4 Fs ; r 
P. (Licutr.) Turban-shaped, hollow, flat‘or convex with polymor’- 
age, wrinkled on the outside; black above.“ ~~ 
Hedw. stirp. ii. 6. E-Batsch 50-Bull. 116. 460. 1—F/. 
dan. 161-Schef. 15&—Hall. enum. eH at p. 21, bist, 
_ 48. 8, at iis p. 11C—Hoffm. cryp. 2.5.2. 
pe ey Se 2 HHOAY atin eee ert Laren 
Sometimes Solitary, more frequent ts. When ma. 
ture, it emits a very ‘subtile black powder in great quantities 
from its upper surface, though Hoffinan says the see 
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from the under surface, which is not analogous to. 
e 
Jar plant. . It afterwards becomes more and rbre claret and at. 
pha. 
ateemitted — 
length plane or eyen convex with the edge rolled back, and in © 
" its latest stage variously wrinkled and deformed. On old trees 
which have been felled and are lying on the ground; frequent. 
Mr, Woopward.—Very well figured and described by the au- 
thors quoted above. ‘Schzeff, 153, also seems to be the plant in 
its unexpanded: state. ‘The substance of the plant is very like 
the Caoutchonc or elastic rubber, but it is rather adhesive. The 
top is black and shining like pitch. The figure an inverted 
cone, ¥ an inch high, 2 of an inch diameter at the bottom, + or 
Linch at the bottom, 2 or 1 inch at the top, fleshy, solid, brown 
on the outside. In its advanced state this plant is black above, 
brownish underneath, or entirely black, thin, of an undulating 
surface, and sometimes 2 or 3 inches in faerwrt having a very 
different appearance to its youn r- vdtat®e nee es . 
Tremolo turbinata. Huds. Po3.,0n the trunks and branches 
ef fallen oaks. [On the decayed branches of an oak; in Corn- 
wall, Mr, Sracktouse.—On the stump of an oak, Holloway- 
head-lane, near Birmingham. .° On a fallen oak tree at the 
Larches. ] eS eae | Sept—April. 
P. Coneave, black. Hubs. 637. 9° 
On cowdung. Hups.—On rotten wood, Bort. 
eee ee 2 Z ing! 
Aug—May.. 
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