46 Transactions. 



Calocera furcata. Fries, Syst. Myc, i, p. 486 (1821) ; Sacc, 



Syll. vi, no. 8150. 



Tufted, slender, 1-2 cm. long, often once or twice forked, 

 yellow, viscid, brancMets acute, downy, and rooting at the base ; 

 spores hyaline, elliptic-oblong, slightly curved, 8-10 x 4-5 fx. 



On rotten branches, &c. New Zealand. Europe. 



Subgelatinoiis, slender, not becoming horny when dry, but 

 adhering to the drying-paper. Stem simple, slightly pubescent, 

 rooting, sometimes solitary. 



Calocera cornea. Fries, Svst. Myc, i, p. 486 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, 

 no. 8158 ; Austr. Fung., p. 204. 



Clubs tufted, rooting, club-shaped, smooth, viscid, subulate, 

 simple or rarely with a short branchlet, orange-yellow or some- 

 times pale-yellow, about 1 cm. high, 1-2 mm. thick ; spores 

 cylindric- oblong, 7-8 x 5 /x. 



On naked wood. New Zealand. Australia, Europe, South 

 America, United States. 



Very rigid when dry. Frequently grows in rows, springing 

 from cracks in dry hard wood. 



67. Auricularia, Bull. 



Effused or the upper portion reflexed ; hymenium inferior, 

 with raised ribs or folds, inflated and gelatinous when moist, 

 collapsing when dry ; sterile surface velvety or strigose. 



Auricxdaria, Bull., Champ. Fr., p. 277. 



Kesembling species of Stereum in habit and appearance; 

 differing in consistency and in structure of basidia. Spores 

 oblong, curved, producing on germination a branched pro- 

 mycelium bearing several strongly curved sporidiola. 



Auricvlaria mesenterica. Fries, Epicr., p. 555 ; Austr. Fung., 



p. 205 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 8294. 



Kesupinate, upper margin free and reflexed, often very 

 broadly effused, several specimens ruiming into each other, 

 subgelatinous and swollen when moist, rigid when dry, 3-10 cm. 

 across ; hymenium wrinkled and folded, smooth, brownish- 

 purple ; pileus coarsely velvety, zoned different colours, margin 

 not deeply lobed ; spores sausage-shaped, hyaline, smooth, 

 continuous, slightly curved, 18-20 x 7 /x. 



On trunks. New Zealand. Australia, Tasmania, Europe, 

 South America, United States. 



Often broadly efiused and with numerous partly free imbri- 

 cated pilei. Distinguished at sight from the species of Hirneola 

 by the strigose zoned pileus. 



