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XCVIII. HIRNEOLA Fr.
(From the jug-shape when young ; hirnea, a jug.)
Gelatinous or cartüagineo-gelatinous, soft and tremelloid when
moist, cup- or ear-shaped. Hymenium gelatinous, even or plicate,
barren under-surface minutely velvety, attached by a point, coriaceous
Fig. 113.—A, B, Hirneola A n r ia ila -J n d æ Berk., entire and in section. One-half natural size,
c , basidium and spores ; d, spores germinating and producing sporidiola ; e , sporidiola
germinating. X 500. ' > v
and membranous when dry, reviving with moisture. Basidia rodshaped
or fusoid, transversely septate, each cell bearing a single
monosporous sterigma. Spores oblong, curved, becoming 1-3
septate and on germination producing minute sporidiola, sometimes
on septate promycelium. (Fig. 1 13 .)
2003. H. Aupieula-Judæ Berk. (“ Jew’s-ear”) abc.
P. thin, concave, flexuous, somewhat veined, tomentose, brown
flesh-colour to reddish-brown or blackish. Hym. venoso-
plicate, glossy salmon, warm brown or reddish, purple-black
when dry.
Cæspitose. Trunks, elder, elm, willow, walnut, oak, holly. Robinia;
frequent. Jan.-Dec. 3 in. Much like Peziza vesiculosa in appearance
when young. Formerly used as a remedy for dropsy. Eaten by inhabitants
of Ukraine.
S u b f a m i l y II. E U T R EM E L L IN O ID E Æ
Basidia subglobose, at maturity longitudinally quadripartite and
producing at the apex two to four elongate sterigmata., 2qo4_2029
XCIX. EXIDIA Fr.
(From the exuding receptacle ; Gr. exidio, to exude.)
Gelatinously distended, tremelloid, irregularly gyrose and lobed
submarginate or effused, often papillose, when young cup-shaped and
truncate. Basidia globose or ovoid, typically longitudmall} fourn
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sporidiola. X
partite, bearing four elongate stout sterigmata. Spores reniform,
for a long time continuous, becoming i- to many-septate on germination,
each cell or loculus of the spore giving origin to a very short
promycelium bearing a crown of strongly-curved
a Auriculinm. Pezizoid. 2004, 2005
b Spicularice. Somewhat plane, not lustrous beneath glandular,
here and there gyrose. 200b, 200/
a, Auriculina,
2004 E. truneata Fr. (from its appearance, as if cut short ; trunco,
to maim, shorten) « c. Soft, distended, shining black.
Disc truncato-plane, glandular, at length cavernous, rough with
dots beneath. St. very short.
B u r s t i n g t h r o u g h bark, h m e , willow. Dec. i® in. Like 2006 on a small
scale.
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