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BEITISH FUNGI. 



Division I. SPORIFERA. Spores naked. 



I. Hymenmm free, mostly naked, or soon exposed. Eymenomycetes. 



n. Hymenium enclosed in a peridium, ruptured 



when mature Gasteromycetes. 



III. Spores naked, mostly terminal, on inconspicuous 



tlireads, free, or enclosed in a perithecium. Coniomycetes. 



IV, Spores naked, on conspicuous threads, rarely 



compacted, small. Hyphomycetes. 



Family I. HYMENOMYCETES. 



Mycelium floccose, giving rise at once to a distinct hymenium, 

 or producing a variously shaped, naked, or volvate receptacle, 

 even, or bearing on its upper or under surface various folds, 

 plates, prickles, &c., clothed with fertile hymenial cells. >Spores 

 naked, mostly quaternate, on distinct spicules. Berk. latrod. p, 

 351. Outl.p.S^. 



Hymenium, normally inferior — 



Fruit-bearing surface lamellose Agaricini. 



Fruit-bearing surface, porous or tubular. . Polyporei. 



Fruit-bearing surface clothed with prickles. Hydnei. 



Fruit-bearing surface, even Auricularini- 



Hymenimn, superior or encirling — 



Clavate or branched, rarely lobed Clavari«i, 



Lobed, convolute, or disc-like, gelatinous ; 

 (fertile threads not compacted into a 

 true hymenium) Tremellinu 



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