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even, bursting irregularly. Spores not mixed with flocci. 



Licea fragiformis Bull., Bowood, on rotten wood. 



Genus XC, Phelonitis Chev. Peridium papyraceous, persistent, 

 commonly splitting horizontally in the centre. Spores large, rough. 



ORDER XI. NIDULARIACEI. 



Genus XCI., Cyathus P. Peridium composed of three, closely 

 connected membranes, at length bursting at the apex, and closed 

 by a white membrane. Sporangia plane, umbilicate, attached to 

 the walls by an elastic cord. 



Cyathus striatus Hoffm., Rudlow, on the ground. 



Genus XCII., Crucibulum Tul. Peridium consisting of a uniform, 

 spongy, fibrous felt, closed by a flat furfuraceous cover of the same 

 color. Sporangia plane, attached by a long cord, springing from 

 a little nipple- like tubercle. 



Crucibulum vulgare Tul. Bowood, on sticks, &c. 



Genus XCIII., Sphcerobolus Tode. Peridium double ; the inner 

 at length inverted elastically, and ejecting a solitary sub-globose 

 sporangium. 



Sphserobolus stellatus Tode, Castle Combe, &c., on sticks. 



Genus XCIY., Polyangium Lk. Peridium subhemispherical, 

 hyaline. Sporangia large in proportion, grumous within. 



Family III. Coniomycetes. 

 Sphceronemei. Perithecium present, or rudimen- 



tary. 

 Perithecium manifestly none. 

 Spores arranged in threads. 



Melanconiei. 

 Phragmotrichacei 



~ (Torulacei. 



Pucciniei. 

 J Cceomacei. 



Perithecium absent, spores more or less 

 moniliform, formed by the rupture of 

 the fertile threads. 



Peridium none, spores mostly oblong, septate. 



Spores subglobose rarely vesicular ; simple, or 



if formed from the articulations of the fertile 



threads deciduous. 



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