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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 46.] OCTOBER. [1890. 
CLXIX.— AN EDIBLE FUNGUS OF NEW ZEALAND. 
(Hirneola polytricha, Montagne.) 
For some years an edible fungus, a product of the New Zealand 
forests, hh become an important article of commerce between that 
European Jew's-Ear (Hirneola Pena Juda), a tough but gelatinous 
ik i formerly in reputation as an ingredient in gargles. "The New 
n 
y W. R.S, 
Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 1884-85 :— 
“ Hirneola polytricha was first made kno own to science by Montagne 
as belonging to this genus, and as being an er of the East 
ee and Java, though, like our two other r species, it 
was first pub- 
ished as belo ging to the closely allied genus Exidia, there being but a - 
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