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FUNGI. 



TABULAR ARRANGEMENT OF FAMILIES AND 

 ORDERS. 



DIVISION I. 



SPOEIFERA. 



Spores naked. 



, HYMENOMYCETE8. 



, Agaricini. 



. Polyporci. 



. Hydnei. 



, Auric ularini. 



I. Hymenium free, mostly naked, or soon exposed . 

 Hymenium, normally inferior 



Fruit-bearing surface lamellose . . 

 Fruit-bearing surface porous or tubular 

 Fruit-bearing surface clothed with prickles 

 Fruit-bearing surface even or rugose. 

 Hymenium superior or encircling 



Clavate, or branched, rarely lobed . . . Clavariei. 

 Lobed, convolute, or disc-like, gelatinous . . TremellinL 



II. Hymenium enclosed in a peridium, ruptured when mature GASTEROMYCETES 

 Hymenomycetous 



Subterranean, naked or enclosed . . . Hypogcei. 

 Terrestrial, hymenium deliquescent . . . Phalloidei. 

 Peridium enclosing sporangia, containing spores Nidulariacei, 

 Coniospermous 



Stipitate, hymenium convolute, drying into a 



dusty mass, enclosed in a volva . . . Podaxinet. 

 Cellular at first, hymenium drying up into a 



dusty mass of threads and spores . . Tnchogastres. 



Gelatinous at first, peridium containing at length 

 a dusty mass of threads and spores . . Myxogastres. 



III. Spores naked, mostly terminal, on inconspicuous threads, 



free or enclosed in a perithecium . CONIOMYCETES. 



Growing on dead or dying plants 

 Subcutaneous 



Perithecium more or less" distinct . Sphcp.ronemei* 

 Perithecium obsolete or wanting . . Melanconiei. 

 Superficial 



Fructifying surface naked. 



Spores compound or tomiparous . Torulacei. 

 Parasitic on living plants 



Peridium distinctly cellular . ^Ecidiacei. 

 Peridium none 



Spores sub-globose, simple or deciduous . Cceomacei. 

 Spores mostly oblong, usually septate . Pucciniai. 



