FEMSJONIA. 



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GENUS LIX. Hirneola (liirnea, 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. 6. 69 <J. 



XCVIII. Hirneola auricula- Judo:. 

 One-third natural size. 



1. H. auricula-Judas Berk. Thin, 



concave, flexuous, at length black, venose-plicate 'without and 

 within, tomentose and olive-cinereous beneath. 



On elder and elm. Frequent. March-Aug. 



Plant 2.5-7.5 cent - ( x ~3 in-) 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. i8./ 7. C. Hbk. n. 1032. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 978. Fr. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 695. Hussey i. t. 53. Bolt. t. 107. Mich. Gen. t. 66. f. i. 

 B. more even. Berk. Out. t. i8./. 7. C. reddish-fuscous. Bull. t. 427. /. 2. 

 Eng. Bot. t. 2447. 



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, brightly coloured. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 695. 



No British species. 



