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PLANTS OF KOHIMA AND MUNEYPORE. 107 
Explicatio Tabularum (continued). 
XXXIX. Deyeuxia scabrescens, Munro —Culmi pars superior, magn. nat. 
a. Spicula dissecta. y 
b. Flos inferior. < 
c. Floris superioris rudimentum. 
XL. Brachypodium Wattii.—Culmi pars superior, magn. nat. 
a. Pedicellus cum glumis. 
b. Pales. 
c. Caryopsis. 
XLI. Scolopendrium Delavayi, Franch.—Planta, magn. nat. 
a. Frons unica, ampliata. 
XLII. Polypodium crenato-pinnatum.—Planta, magn. nat. 
XLIII. Polypodium Wardii. 
a. Planta, 4 magn. nat. 
b. Pinna unica, magn. nat. 
XLIV. Lygodium flexuosum, Sw., var. alta.—Oaulis fragmentum, cum fronde 
unica, magn. nat. 
A Monograph of the Thelephoree.— Part I. By GEORGE MASSEE. 
(Communicated by W. T. Tarserron Dyer, MA, FRS, 
CMG, F.L.S.) 
(Read 15th March, 1888.) 
(Pıarzs XLV.-XLVII.) 
GENERAL INTRODUCTION. 
Tre group of Fungi known as the Basidiomycetes, characterized 
by the presence of basidia which abjoint spores born 
divided into two subgroups, the Gastromycetes and the Hyme- 
nomycetes. The latter is characterized as follows by Fries #:— 
“ Hymenio externo subdiscreto, sporophoris apice n Pedal 
sporis spiculis suffultis," which, from the sy impii : Mm be 
View, is supposed to define the subgroup, but eun rie bn 
expected, at those points where the transition to neighbo! P 
subgroups obliterates the sharpness of the above Chats lest 
The leading feature is the naked hymenium, u riy de s the 
order is from the first exposed ; whereas in the higher or .. 
most completely differentiated species of each have the hymen 
at first concealed by specialized portions of the sporophore, 
* Hym. Eur. p. 1. 
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