CI. I.] FUNGI, ALGjE. 63 



Class 1. Acotyledones. 



Embryo destitute of Cotyledons, as well as of a 

 separate Albumen. 



Ord. 1, Fungi. Tab. 9. fig. 129-133. " Either 

 parasitical, or springing from the ground naked, or 

 inclosed in a splitting Volva (53:7). Substance in 

 some corky, or toughly coated; in others softer, 

 fleshy, or mucilaginous. Some are simple, others 

 branched ; some spherical; several have a Head, Pi- 

 leus, either stalked or sessile, sometimes orbicular and 

 peltate; sometimes semi-orbicular, and laterally at- 

 tached. Leaves and Flowers are wanting ; but there 

 is in the place of Anthers (58) a scattered, external 

 or internal, powder. The place of Pistils (59) is sup- 

 plied by organs variously constructed, resembling 

 thin plates, wrinkles, furrows, pores, tubes, scales, 

 fibres, &c; in which, in some manner or other, are 

 lodged bodies, that germinate in the earth like Seeds 

 (62), or take root like creeping shoots, and repro- 

 duce the plant. The corky Fungi are perennial, and 

 often parasitical ; the rest either parasitical or ter- 

 restrial, short-lived, prone to putrefaction." 



Such is the substance of Jussieu's character of this 

 Order. I have no doubt that Fungi are propa- 

 gated by real Seeds, though increased also, like other 

 plants, by their fibrous Radicles (7). 



Ord. 2. Algm. Tab. 8, 9. fig. 116-128. "Various 

 in habit, texture, substance, and organs of propa- 



