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Genus 63. HIRNEOXiA. Fries. 
Between cartilaginous and gelatinous, soft when moist, cup- 
shaped, tougbly horny when drj. Hymenium superior. Spores 
continuous, hyaline. 
1148. Hirneola auriformis. Schw. Fr. Fun. Nat. 26. 
Sacc. Syll. 8309.=Hirneola Lusueurii. Lev. 
Csespitose, stipitate, glaucous brown (5 can. broad), cups 
semiorbicular, veined beneath — and the short, twisted lateral 
stem — sulcate lacunose, velvety pubescent ; hymenium plicate, 
brown, turning pale. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
1149. Hirneola polytricha. Mont, in Bel. Voy. 154. Sacc. 
Syll. 8311. 
Cups hemispherical, expanded, ear-shaped, externally villose- 
tomentose, grey, produced into a very short oblique stem (3-5 
c.m. broad), disc even, purplish -brown ; spores reniform, 14 x 6 p,. 
On trunks. Victoria. N.S. Wales. Queensland. 8. Australia. 
Chatham Island. Lord Howe’s Island. Torres Straits. (Fig. 90). 
1150. Hirneola auricula juda®. Linn. Fr.Hyin.Eur. 695. 
Sacc. Syll. 8312. 
Concave, flexuous, thin, at length black, venosely plicate on both 
sides, tomentose beneath (5-12 c.m. broad); spores reniform, 
20-25 x 7-9 p. 
On trunks. Victoria. N.S. Wales. Queensland. Tasmania. 
** Sessile. 
1151. Hirneola fusco-succinea. Mont. Cuba 364. Sacc. 
Sytl. 8319. 
Broad, sessile, shell-shaped, then flattened; margin undulate 
" (3-5 c.m. broad), internally reticulated with veins, amber brown, 
externally ribbed and rugose, velvety, hoary. 
On bark. Queensland. N.S. Wales. S.W. Australia. 
1152. Hirneola rufa. Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist. t. 12, /. 17. 
Sacc. Syll. 8320. 
Cup-shaped, rather lateral, sessile (2-4 c.m. broad), externally 
beset with fasciculate, short, rufous set® ; hymenium somewhat 
plicate, smooth, brownish-black. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
1153. Hirneola hispidula. Berk. Exotic Fungi 396. Sacc. 
Syll. 8323. 
Globose-campanulate, oblique, sessile, internally dark brown, 
externally covered with short, lawn-coloured, woolly hairs (8-10 
c.m.). 
On dead wood. Victoria. Queensland. 
