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Fruit bodies mostly flat, hemispherical, ellipsoidal, or long, at 

 length bursting irregularly, and showing groups of asci only at 

 the base. Horn-like, leathery, or membranous, mostly black 

 and sessile, very minute. PHACIDIACEI. 



Fruit bodies more or less bowl-shaped, covered with groups of asci, 

 on the flat or concave sides. PEZIZACE^E. ' 



Fruit body in the form of a cap, or club-shaped, fleshy, on a stalk, 

 coated with asci groups on the outer surface of the cap or club, 

 not minute. ELVELLACEI. 



186. With no special hymenium or basid-bearing surface, the spores 

 being formed on single basids, growing directly from the myce- 

 lium. 189 



Hymenium not inclosed. 187 



Hymenium inclosed in a head. Gasteromycetes. 



Fruit body globular, circular, or beaker-form, often opening in a 

 star-form, or like a lid. Inner mass transforming itself into 

 small, lens-form or globular bodies, so as to appear like eggs in a 

 nest. NIDULARIACEI. 



Inner mass of the fruit body consisting of many small, irregular 

 cavities, on the sides of which the basids are formed. 



Growing underground, the fruit body remaining closed till it decays. 



HYMENOQASTKEI or HYPOO^I. 

 Growing above ground. 



Fruit body with two coats and many cavities, the inner part being 

 borne aloft by the rapid growth of the stalk till it appears like a 

 cap on which the hymenium is exposed. Of unpleasant smell, 

 and very soon decaying to a liquid mass. PHALLOIDEI. 



Interior of fruit body arranged in irregular folds. At length dry- 

 ing to dusty spores. Having a volva, or envelope. Growing in 

 warm regions. PODAXINEJ. 



Interior of heads cellular, drying up to a mass of threads and dusty 

 spores. ( fun 1 ' balls. ) LYCOPERDACEI or TRICHOGASTRES. 



187. Hymenium on the under side. 188 

 Hymenium on the upper or outer side. 



Substance of fruit body gelatinous, and lobed, convoluted, or disc- 

 like. TREMELLINI. 

 Substance firm in texture. Club-shaped, simple or branching. 



CLAVARIEI. 



