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17. T. epigsea, B. and Br. ; effused, gelatinous, gyroso-pli- 

 cate, white. — Ann. of Nat. Hist. ser. 2. ii. p. 266, with fig. 



On the ground. Rare. Leigh Wood, Bristol. Spreading 

 over the naked soil, on which it forms a thin, white, gelatinous 

 stratum. 



46. EXIDIA, Fr. 



Tremulous, margined, fertile above and glandular, barren 

 below. 



1. E. recisa, Fr.; very soft, truncate, plane, costate, some- 

 what waved, brown amber-colour, rough with little specks 

 below; stem very short, excentric, oblique. — Eny. Bot. 1. 1819. 



On dead branches of willows, often before they fall. Very 

 common. 



2. E. glandulosa, Fr. ; effused, flattened, thick, undulated, 

 nearly black, rough with conical papillae, cinereous, and some- 

 what tomentose beneath. — Enff. Bot. t. 2448, 2452 ; Huss. i. 

 ^.42. 



On dead branches of oak, etc. Common. The under side 

 feels like black crape. Sometimes truncate, sometimes pen- 

 dulous. 



3. E. saccharina, Fr.; tubercular, gyroso-undulate, thick, 

 tawny-cinnamon, sprinkled with scattered papillae. 



On larch. Rare. Mossburnford, A. Jerdon. 



47. HIRNEOLA, Fr. 



Gelatinous, cup-shaped, horny when dry. Hymenium often 

 more or less wrinkled ; interstices even, without papilla? ; outer 

 surface velvety. 



1. H. auricTila-Judae, B.; thin, concave, flexuous, at length 

 black, venoso-plicate without and within, tomentose beneath. 

 (Plate 18, fig. 7.)— Huss. i. t. 53. 



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