526 ENUMERATION OF FUNGI. 
Cauloglossum, Grev.; and Podazon, Desv.; the author adds 
to it Secotium, Kze.; Polyplocium, Berk.; and Gyrophrag- 
mium. He suspects, moreover, that Montagnea, which may 
have been misunderstood by Fries, will one day be placed at 
the head of this little group. Batarrea itself does not appear 
to him so distant as might at first be imagined. As regards 
the analogies of Podazinee, he remarks that Spumaria calls 
to mind Gyrophragmium, and that Æthalium is celluloso- 
spongy, as Secotiam, &c.; finally, that a columella is found 
in Stemonitis and many other genera. 
The memoir closes with the following observations : 
* From Mr. Berkeley's researches, it appears that a num- 
ber of subterranean fungi (Fungi hypoggei), which, from an 
illusory analogy, had been, without any firm ground, referred 
to Tuberacee, belong incontestibly to Lycoperdacee, and that 
these, at least relatively to their mode of fructification, are 
much more near to Hymenomycetes, whilst those regarded in 
the same point of view are nearer to Discomycetes of Fries, 
or Persoon's Hymenotheca, since the reproductive bodies 
being contained in the asci, are real sporidia. The recent 
labours of Tulasne and Vittadini have confirmed these results, 
which may now be regarded as decisive. 
* If now we review the succession of different forms by 
which the Fungi of the two families to which the names of 
Hymenomycetes and Gasteromycetes have been applied, in 
their ascending series, it cannot escape notice, that, notwith- 
standing their apparent differences, the same plan has been 
followed in their formation, or in other terms, that they have 
a unity of composition. We observe, however, this remark- 
able cireumstance in their mode as in their degree of evolu- 
tion, that the one seek the light, under the influence. of 
which the principal phenomena of fructification take place, 
while the other run through the first or all the phases of 
their life out of the sphere of action of this powerful agent; 
that is to say, that they ripen their spores in a closed recep- 
tacle, and that this opens, usually, only at the moment of 
