TREE MOREL 165 



hollow, the thick end furnished with pits lined by the 

 hymenium j colour whitish; about one inch long. 



Cyttaria berteri. Berk. — Top-shaped, orange, up to one 

 inch across. Edible, growing on living branches of Fagus 

 obliqua, in Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, and Chili. 



Cyttaria darwinii, Berk. — Subglobose, solid, whitish. 

 Edible. On living branches of Fagus antarctica and F. 

 betuloides. Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Chili. First col- 

 lected by Darwin. 



Cyttaria hookeri, Berk. — Obovate or clavate, umbonate, 

 yellowish cinnamon, half to three-quarters of an inch long. 

 Edible. On living branches of Fagus obliqua and F. 

 antarctica. Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, and Hermite 

 Island, Cape Horn. 



Fischer, Bot. Ztg., 1888, p. 816, t. xii. 



HEMI-BASIDIOMYCETES 



'Jew's Ears' Fungus 

 {Hirneola auricula-judae, Berk.) 



Enumerated by Prillieux and Delacroix (Bull, du Minis- 

 tere de t Agric, xii., No. 5, Sept. 1893) ^^ ^ wound-parasite, 

 attacking the mulberry-tree. 



The fungus is very thin, and flexible like indiarubber, 

 more or less shaped Uke a human ear, flesh-coloured or lurid, 

 the sterile side minutely velvety. Common in Britain on 

 living branches of elder (Sambucus nigra), which it kills. 



