1054 CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



fo as to give it a cylindrical or fphserlcal 

 form, and is covered all over with fhort brown 

 or whitilh hairs, and when old it becomes con- 

 cave and ciliated as before-mentioned, the difc 

 fometimes fprinkled with minute grecnifh dots. 

 It varies of a yellow and a brownilli color, and 

 fometimes with a naked margin deftitute of 

 hairs. 



euricula 9. p. concava riigofa auriformis. Lin. fyft. nat, 

 edit. 13. pag. 823. Tremella auricula^ Sp. pL 

 1625. (Ger. emac. 1481. ad fummum tahula: 

 Sterbeck. pag, 256. tab. 27. fig. H. H. Michel. 

 t. 66. f. I. Blackwell. t. 334. Batarra, 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 fubftancc of this is a quaking gelatinous 

 membrane, which when dry becomes hard. 



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



It grows feflile, either fingle or in clufters, (haped 

 fometimes like a faucer, other times like a 

 man's ear, wrinkled with large fwelling veins, 

 the under fide covered with a hoary velvet 

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



An infufion or decodtion of this fungus in water, 

 ■• . " . milk. 



