Thallogeni i 



FUNG ILES. 





Alliance II. FUNGALES.—Tm Fungal Alliance.* 



I Just Gen. 3 1789) : DC I- 1, /v. 2, 65. 



1817) ; J . Mycolog. 182] : - ■• << . i) ; Blench i 



Brongn. ■-. /■ 1824) ; 6 ■ '/-'. Ft. 6. 1828 ; H 



467. 11830 ; Bw*. (n /-/. vol. l'. /.' -J L83G ; U nta r»i n //&< cfc I 

 tr.ms'ii.'.i. wiO \ ■ I. p. I. oy JSerfe. (1842j . I 



— Epiphyte, ClnA; Crev. Fl. Edin xxv. (1824 I teromycl, (?«», K. /•.'■/oi. 

 Myi ;, :<7n 1 1>27>. I I 



. ■'. Clou. I. e. I824i.- Byssaceae, [in part) Fr.Syst, Orb. i 



Diagnosis. Cellular flowerless plants, nourished through their thnllus (spawn or n< : 

 urn) ; living in air : > led by spores colourless or brown, and sometimes incL 



in asci ; </< stUute of green you idia. 



4 5 r> 7 n 



Fig. XIII. 



Plants consistinpt of a congeries of cellules or filaments, or both variously combined, 

 ising in size in the more perfect species by addition to their ii i-i. 1. •, their outside 

 undergoing no change after its first formation, chiefly growing upon decayed organic 

 substances, or soil axisiii^ from their decomposition, frequently ephemeral, and variously 

 coloured, never accompanied as in Lichens bj reproductive germs ofa vegetable green 

 called gonidia ; nourished by juices derived from the matrix. Fructification either 

 ■pores attached externally, and often in definite numbers, to the cellular tissue, and 

 frequently on peculiar cells called Bporophores or basidia, which are in many 

 surmounted by fine processes which immediate!} support the Bpores, and called spicules 

 Or Bterigmata ; or inclosed in membranous sacs or asci. and then termed sporidia. 



Is of the latex have been observed in Agaricus fastens, by Cords, Spiral filai 

 like the elaters of Jungermannia, exist in Trichia and Batarrea. They wen 

 detected by the young* r Hedwig, and described afterwards by Kunze and Corda. Mr. 

 Berkeley detected them in the latter genus, and has very recently observed them, but 

 verj sparingly in Podaxon. The spores of fungi germinate either h\ a simple el 



* It la Impossible to look at the huge mass of genera collected b 

 without perceiving that they In truth consist of groups equivalent to t! 

 Algal Alliance, as well as In ether parts of this arrangement. And if I had snch an s 

 the subject a> would justify my doing so, 1 should have presumed to bn ak uj 

 Alliance Into similar orders. It would, however, be presumptuous In me, with whom I r 



been a special study, to disturb the arrangements of these learned men who have i 



the business of their lives. 



Following admirable account of the Alliani n most kindly pi x ' ■'• 



Berkeley, whose knowledge of the Bpedes is unequalled in this 



permits me to state, that in his opinion the divisions here called orders ma] ■ 

 Orders, in the sense In which that term is applied l" A 



PI Xlll.— 1. Arcvriatlava ; 2 < iei-trum multitiduin ; 3. Mucorcaninus j L Hymenlum of \ 

 \ .irieus oepirstipos ; (i. Vermirularia triehe'.la : 7. Vertical Bectl a ol Hypoxylon pui 

 Angioridiuiu sinuosum. From G rev i lie's t ra, with th 



