CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



fo as to give it a cylindrical or fphserical 

 tfbrm, and is covered all over with fhort brown 

 or whitifh hairs, and when old it becomes con- 

 cave and ciliated as before-mentioned, the difc 

 fometimes fprinkled with minute grecnifli dots. 

 It varies of a yellow and a browniih color, and 

 fometimes with a naked margin deftitute of 

 hairs. 



P. concava rugofa auriformis. Lin. fyfi. nat, 

 edit. 13. ■pag. ^23. Tremella auricula^ Sp. pL 

 1625. (Ger. emac. 1481. ad fummum t alulae. 

 Sterbeck. pag. 256. tab. 27. Jig. H. H. Michel. 

 /. 66. f. I. Blackwell. t. 334. Bat ana. t. 3. 



F-) 



Eared Peziza, or Jews Ears. Anglis. 



It grows upon the bark of old decay'd trees, par- 

 ticularly upon the elder. X. XI. 



The fubftance of this is a quaking gelatinous 

 membrane, which when dry becomes hard. 



The color is dark fufcous, like a bat's wing. 



It grows feffile, either fingle or in clufters, fhaped 

 fometimes like a faucer, other times like a 

 man's ear, wrinkled with large fwelling veins, 

 the under fide covered wich a hoary velvet 

 down, the infide fmooth and darker-color'd. 



An infufion or deco6tion of this fungus in water, 



milk. 



