~Calocera viscosa~ (Fries) Fries described earlier (p. 170) is closely related to _Dacrymyces_. The much smaller, and probably equally as common, _Calocera cornea_ (Fries) Fries is simple, club-shaped and yellow, but darkens to become orange on drying. It grows up to 10 mm high and occurs on all sorts of wood; it is especially common on wet beech trunks. It approaches _Dacrymyces_ more than the much larger _C. viscosa_. _Illustrations_: _D. deliquescens_--LH 225; NB 149⁷; WD 107¹⁰. _C. cornea_--WD 107⁹. ~Hirneola auricula-judae~ (St Amans) Berkeley Jew’s ear _Fruit-body_: width 20-75 mm. _Description_: Fruit-body: cup or ear-shaped, red-brown or deep wine-colour, gelatinous with its upper surface, velvety and clothed in greyish or olivaceous hairs. Spore-bearing layer: reddish or purplish brown, smooth or veined and translucent. Spore-print: white. Spores: very long, hyaline under the microscope, oblong, curved and narrowed towards their base, 16-18 × 6-8 µm in size. Cystidia: absent. _Habitat_ & _Distribution_: On dead branches of all kinds and particularly common throughout the year on elder. _General Information_: Easily recognised by the wine-coloured, cup-shaped or ear-shaped fruit-body; it is often called _Auricularia judae_ in many books. Its Latin name is reflected in the common name:--_auricula_ ear and _judae_, of a jew. This fungus is supposed to be a reappearance, as a warning to us all, of Judas, who on betrayal of Christ hung himself from an elder tree. ~Auricularia mesenterica~ (S. F. Gray) Persoon, ‘Tripe-fungus’, is bracket-shaped with a hairy upper surface and reddish purple or deep purple lower surface which when fresh has a greyish bloom due to the formation of the spores. There are several fungi in the group Auriculariales in Britain, but many of them are inconspicuous and are identified with difficulty except by the expert. _Sebacina incrustans_ (Fries) Tulasne is a common more obvious example of the resupinate forms. It grows as a cream or ivory-coloured, soft fruit-body encrusting twigs, leaves, grass and soil. _Illustrations_: LH 225; NB 149¹; WD 107¹. [Illustration: Plate 60. Jelly fungi] ~Exidia glandulosa~ (St Amans) Fries Witch’s butter _Fruit-body_: width 15-50 mm. _Description_: Fruit-body: sessile or shortly stalked, blackish, variable in shape, rounded, flattened, disc-shaped or convolute, gelatinous with its under surface tomentose and free from the substrate. Fruiting surface: uppermost, wavy and folded, and with numerous wart-like projections. Spore-print: white. Spores: long, hyaline, cylindrical, sausage-shaped and 12-15 × 5 µm in size. Cystidia: absent. _Habitat_ & _Distribution_: Frequent in crowded groups on stumps, logs and fallen branches of broad-leaved trees, especially those of ash; common throughout the year.