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Class IV. A compound fructijicaiionj resulting from 

 fertilization {alternation of generations), 



Ascomycetes. t?i • i )> 



Dasidiomycetes. j 



Professor De Bary says,^ '^According to tlie leading 

 points of view indicated, and ttie present state of our 

 knowledge, a review of the course of development of 

 the several groups of the Fungi arranges them in the 

 following manner. 



I. Series of the Ascomycetes. 



1. Peronosporese (with Ancylistese and Monohle- 

 pharis). 



2. Sajjrolegniese. 



3. Miicorini or Zygomycetes. 



4. Entomojjlitlwrese. 



5. Ascomycetes. 



6. Uredinese, 



11. Geoups which Diveege eeom the Series of the 

 Ascomycetes oe aee of Doubtful Position. 



7. Chytridiese. 



8. Protomyces and Ustilagineae. 



9. Bouhtful Ascomycetes (Saccharomyces, &c.). 

 1 . Basidio my cetes . 



Groups 1 — i have been brought together under the 

 name of Phycomycetes on account of their close ap- 

 proximation to the Algae. 



Groups 7 and 8 in the second category will be con- 

 sidered in connection with the Phycomycetes ; group 

 9 naturally in connection with 5, and 10 with 6.^' 



' Fungi, 3Iycetozoa, and Bacteria, English ed., p. 132. 



