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tries to unravel its secrets ; and that as a seience it stands second 
to none in the healthy recreation it affords to both body and 
mind, giving strength to the one, and elevating thoughts to the 
other. 
Further remarks on the Bath Fungi. By C. E. Brooms, MA., F.L.S. 
(Read March \7th, 1875. ) | 
In continuing my notices of the Fungi of the neighbourhood of 
Bath, I shall adhere to the arrangement which Mr. Berkeley has 
adopted in his “ Outlines of British Fungology,” with this difference, 
that his 11th Order, Nidulariacei, having been already treated of 
in connection with his 9th Order, Trichogastres, as a more natural 
arrangement, I shall pass on to his 3rd Family, Coniomycetes, 
which commences with his 12th Order, 
SPHARONEMEI. 
The Family Coniomycetes derives its name from the Greek 
words konis dust, and muke a Fungus. The important character 
consists in the multitude of the spores which are produced in 
great abundance on the tips or lateral branches of a comparatively 
scanty Mycelium, from the threads of which the spores are easily 
detached when ripe, and thus form little dusty heaps or, in some 
cases, cirri, on the exterior of the substance on which the plant 
grows. In some of the members of this group of Fungi the spores 
are produced within little closed conceptacles called perithecia, 
which are either seated externally on the surface or buried more 
or less deeply in the substance on which they grow. In this case, 
the spores are either ejected through a minute pore on the summit, 
or dispersed on the irregular breaking up of the perithecia. Other 
Genera of the group possess no true perithecium of their own, but 
their spores are produced within a false conceptacle formed from 
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