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Classification of the A-gar-i-ca'-les. — This order includes several 

 families of the most interesting and the most conspicuous Mushrooms. 

 The hy-me'-ni-um or spore-bearing layer is a smooth layer in the Hy- 

 poch-na'-ce-ae, The-leph-o-ra'-ce-ae and Cla-var-i-a'-ce-ae ; in the Hyd'-na- 

 ce-ae there are dependent spine-like processes on whose surface the ba-sid'- 

 i-a arc Ixmie; in the Po-ly-po-ra'-ce-ae_the hy-mc'-ni-um consists of pores, 

 the same also in the Bo-le-ta'-ce-ae, but here the layer of pores is separable 

 from the pileus; and in the A-gar-i-ca'-ce-ae there are gills or lamellae 

 to support the hy-me'-ni-um. The tabular synopsis would be as follows: 



Order A-GAR-T-CA'-LES 



Family A-gar-i-ca'-ce-ae 

 Family Bo-le-ta'-ce-ae 

 I'amily Hyd-na'-ce-ae 

 iMiialiy Po-ly-po-ra'-ce-ae 

 Family Cla-var-i-a'-ce-ae 

 Family The-leph-o-ra'-ce-ae 

 Family Hy-poch-na'-ce-ae 



l-"ic. 10"). Dae-da'-lea am-B!g'-u-a. Tlie ikmcs magnified of the same jilant 

 shown in I'ig. 104. 'I'lie microphotograph was made by usin.a: a x'inch dcular ami a 

 3-inch objective. .See explanation of Fig. ]ii4. 



