Photo by C. G. Lloyd.
Plate L. Figure 404.—Excidia glandulosa.
This plant is called "Witches' Butter." It varies in color, from whitish to brown and deep cinereous, at length blackish; flattened, undulated, much wrinkled above, slightly plicated below; soft at first and when moist, becoming film-like when dry. Found on dead branches of oak.
Hirneola. Fr.
Hirneola is the diminutive of hirnea, a jug. Gelatinous, cup-shaped, horny when dry. Hymenium wrinkled, becoming cartilaginous when moistened. The hymenium is in the form of a hard skin which covers the cup-shaped cavities, and which can be peeled off after soaking in water, the interstices are without papillæ and the outer surface is velvety.
Hirneola auricula-Judæ. Berk.
The Jew's Ear Hirneola. Edible.