THREE COMMON SPECIES OF AURIC- 

 ULARIA 



Mary F. Barrett 



I. Auricularia Auricula (L.) Underwood, Mem. Torrey Club 

 12 : 15. 1902 

 Tremella Auricula L. Sp. PI. 1157. I753- 

 Pesiza Auricula L. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 2: 725. 1767. 

 Merulius auricula Roth. Germ, i : 535. 1788. 

 Pesiza Auricula- J udae Bull. Champ, i: 241. 1791. 

 Tremella Auricula Judae Pers. Obs. Myc. 2: 93. 1799. 

 Auricularia sambucina Mart. Fl. Crypt. Erl. 459. 1817. 

 Exidia Auricula Judae Fr. Syst. 2: 221. 1822. 

 Auricularia ampla Pers. in Freyc. Voy. 177. 1826. 

 Exidia auricula Wallr. Fl. Crypt. 2 : 559. 1833. 

 Exidia ampla Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. III. 5: 159. 1846. 

 Hirneola auricula- J udae Berk. Outl. 289. i860. 

 Hirneola ampla Sacc. Syll. 6 : 765. 1888. 



Auricularia Auricula Judae Schrot. Krypt. Fl. Schles. 3 : 386. 1889. 

 Auricula Judae Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 2: 844. 1891. 

 Auricula ampla Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 2: 844. 1891. 



Erumpent, single or cespitose ; at first peziza-form, then becom- 

 ing erect and foliaceous, much twisted, slightly ear- or shell- 

 shaped, one or several lobed, sessile or substipitate, up to 12 cm. 

 in height; thin gelatinous, trembling when moist; sterile surface 

 curling over hymenium, red-brown when moist, yellowish-brown 

 to olive-brown when dry, when young glaucous, when older ashy, 

 pruinose with fine short hairs, irregularly veined, sometimes ap- 

 pearing quilted; hymenium when moist red-brown like coffee jelly, 

 smooth, undulating but not folded or wrinkled; hymenium when 

 dry or old becoming almost black, shining, or dull with a white 

 bloom, sometimes folded according to manner of drying; spores 

 typical of the genus, 11-14 X 5-6 /a. 



Habitat: Dead wood of various kinds. 



Distribution in North America: Wide. Specimens were 

 examined from various parts of Canada, Maine, New Hampshire, 



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