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III. VERPA. Terrestrial. Pileo-stipitate. Pilens hollow 

 below, folded, inflated, or conical and adpressed. Hjmenium 

 rugulose. 



IV. LEOTIA. Terrestrial. Pileo-stipitate. Pilens supported 

 centrally by Stem, margin revolute, smooth, and viscid. 



Y. GEOGLOSSUM. Terrestrial. Club-shaped. Small. 

 Hymenium surrounding the club. 



VI. GYROMITRA. Terrestrial. Pileo-stipitate. Pilaus in- 

 flated, bulging, rough, with raised gyrose ribs. 



VII. SPATHULARIA. Terrestrial. Pileo-stipitate. Pileus 

 erect, compressed, running down into the Stem at the sides. 



VIII. EHIZINA. Terrestrial. Crustaceous. Effused, then 

 bulsfingr and inflated. Underset with root-like fibrils. 



IX. PEZIZA. Terrestrial and parasitic. Receptacle cup-shaped, 

 concave, soon expanding. Hymenium within cup. Sessile or sub- 

 stipitate. 



X. BULGARIA. Parasitic. Receptacle orbicular, then trun- 

 cate, closed at first. Hymenium or inner surface, smooth, even, 

 viscid. 



We have now particularized all the Families, Orders, and Genera 

 of Fungi, to which such plants as can be termed Mushrooms belong. 

 To those who would go further there is a wide field open, and an 

 exceedingly interesting one, which will be found to some extent 

 illustrated in the Plates appended to this volume. The microscope 

 will introduce us to a whole new world of plants, presenting forms, 

 and means of fructification, most strange and remarkable, be- 

 wildering from their multitude and diversity. But this branch 

 of Mycology is beyond our present purpose.^ 



* 1 The reader desirous of more extended information is referred to Cooke's 

 Handbook of British Fungi, which is a catalogue, illustrated and descriptive, 

 of all known species indigenous to England. Unfortunately, like all the more 

 copious works on Mycology, the Handbook is not easy to obtain, and is some- 

 what costly. But there is a small work by the same author, on Microscopic 

 Fungi, which can readily be obtained. 



