CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 1 13 



93. CANTHARELLUS. Fungi fleshy or membranaceous, plaited 



beneath, with raised veins of a similar substance, radiating, 

 subparallel, dichotomous, sometimes anastomozing. 



* * * * Fungi filled with a copious seminal powder enclosed in a mem- 

 brane, sometimes double* (The membrane or outer coat (peridium) 

 is of a fibrous structure. The interior is pulpy at first, becomes gra- 

 dually more consistent, at last pulverulent, when it is discharged by 

 irregular ruptures of the coat.) 



94. SCLERODERMA. Globular, sessile. Peridium coriaceous, in- 



durated, mostly warty, bursting at the apex. Seeds col- 

 lected into little contiguous distinct globules, mixed with 

 filaments. 



95 LYCOPERDON. Globular, sessile or obsoletely stalked. Pe- 

 ridium membranous, often warted, bursting irregularly at 

 the top, filled with a soft pulverulent and fibrous mass. 



96. LYCOGOLA. Sessile, globose or subirregular. Peridium thin, 



fragile, variously dehiscent, the seminal mass very pulve- 

 rulent and mixed with few fibres. 



97. ONYGENA. Stalked with a globular head, which is covered 



with a crustaceous membrane bursting irregularly ; semi- 

 nal mass compact, pulverulent, without fibres. 



98. LEOCARPUS. Minute, somewhat stalked. Peridium crusta- 



ceous, fragile, bursting, containing a black seminal mass 

 mixed with a few filaments. 



99. CRATERIUM. Fungi minute, cyathiform, smooth, membra- 



nous, truncate at the top ; and closed by a plane diaphragm ; 

 filled with pulverulent seeds intermixed with slender fila- 

 ments. 



100. PHYSARUM. Minute, stalked, the head subglobose, covered 



with a thin membrane, bursting and deciduous in distinct 

 portions. Seeds mixed with filaments. 



101. TRICHIA. Minute, sessile or stalked, globular or ovate, the 



outer coat membranaceous, bursting irregularly. Seeds 



