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P E Z I Z A concavo -rugofa ; auriformis. Lyn. Syji. Nat. Mur. CXXXI.
23. Tram el la auricula. - Sp. PL 1625. Hudjbn Angl. auricula.
563. Gleditfch, p. 39, No. 3. Sterb• Tbeat. t. 27, Jig. H.
Relhan,Flor. 466, No. 971. Micfr,,wov.Gen. t. 66, Jig. 1.
E A R E D P E Z I Z A,
T AB. CVII.
r | VHIS adheres to the bark of old elder-and willow trees, by
a fmall central root or umbilical cord. The \ghole plant
is of,a dark olive colour, and allumes great variety.of ihapes,
depending on its.; age, or theidrynefs or moiftnefs of the air.
When young, and in a moiit ftate, it is frequently turbinihaped,
as' at a. when further advanced,.in growth, in rainy
weather, it is greatly extended in magnitude, becomes lobed
and undulated -, the lobes lying over one another. The fubftance
quaking and gelatinous, of a duiky kind of olive
-colour, and two' or three, fometimes four inches in diameter ;
it appears in this itate, as at b. In dry feafonsjft ihrinks up,
and becomeg of à coal blgpk colour, as at c. The upper fide
is conftantly Jinooth -, the tinder fide has a kind of hairinefs or
granula upon .it, which gives a gentle afperi'ty to the touch 11
H u d s o n makes it a Tramella, as did L i n n ^ u s in fome
of his works.' Do not the- Tremetla and the Pezizoe touch
one another in this plant ?
Grows about Halifax, but is rare. The fpecimen here
figured and defcribed, if gathered on the bark of an old willow
tree, by Red-Beck, near Shibden-Hall, in February, 1789.