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arrangement in the Hymenomycetes. Fruit-bodies with 



Fio. 57. Hirneola auricula- judae, a gelatinous fungus the fruit-bodies of 

 which often somewhat resemble an ear in form. The wrinkled hymenial 

 surfaces of the two fruit-bodies here shown looked downwards toward 

 the earth. Photographed by A. E. Peck at Scarborough, England. 

 Natural size. 



gelatinous or more cartilaginous consistence, i.e. those which are 

 most firmly built, tend to be so constructed that their hymenium 



