Subglobose or lobed, hollow. (No edible species reported.)
Calocera.
Subcylindrical and erect, simple or branched (No edible species reported.)
Sub-Family—Auricularieæ.
HIRNE´OLA Fr.
Hirnea, a small jug.
Gelatinous, rather cartilaginous, soft and tremulous when moist, but not distended with jelly, horny when dry, becoming somewhat cartilaginous when moistened. The hard skin forming the hymenium, which covers the cup-shaped cavity and is of a different color, can be separated entire after a thorough soaking in water. Sporophores (spore-bearing processes) not involved in jelly. Spores oblong, curved. Fries.
A very peculiar and distinct genus separated from the neighboring genera by its disk-like, somewhat cup-shaped cavity and by its not being distended with jelly.
