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is emitted through a fiffure of the Pericarp, which is generally torn in the- 

 top, and in the progrefs of age, leaves the membranaceous bark, in which, 

 it was enclofed, empty. 



GENUS VII. NIDU LA R I A. 



A fmall Fungus, leather-like, membranaceous, feffile, in the form of 

 a cup or inverted bell, holding feeds at the bottom, refembling lentils;, 

 very broad and foot-ftalked. 



GENUS VIII. HrPO.XTL.ON. 



A fmall Fungus, leathery or woody, at firft it is fprinkled over with a 

 male duft, generally very confpicuous, it nourifhes its very numerous feeds, 

 mixed with a glutinous juice in little cells, and is therefore monoecius. 



GENUS IX. VELIO LA RI A. 



A fmall Fungus, of a woody or leathery fubftancej fometimes compofed 

 of many fmall cells, joined together in form of a ftud ; fometimes of one 

 fingle cell, rifing on the barks of dead or dying trees, remaining more or 

 lefs deeply fixed among their ftrata, and covered with an epidermis. It 

 nourifhes its feeds, mixed with a glutinous juice, in little cells. 



GENUS X. CLATHRUS. 



A Fungus compofed of flefhy branches, long and round, continued 

 among them felves; crofs-barred or latticed, and as it were arched, nou~ 

 rifhing its feeds within; hitherto we know only one Clathrus, it is volva- 

 ceous, feffile, and produces feeds mixed in a moift fubftance. 



GENUS XI. C LAVA RI A. 



A long, cylindrical, or club-fhaped Fungus, vertical, and emitting 

 feeds from all the parts of its furface. 



GENUS XII. TREMELLA. 



A gelatinous, cartilagenous, and fometimes flefhy Fungus, variously 

 expanded in breadth, moftly feffile, and emitting feeds from all the parts 

 of its furface, 



GENUS 



