1 14 CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



placed in a fibrous mass, the filaments involute, attached 

 to the base, and expanding elastically. 



102. ARSCYRIA. Small, stalked, the head ovate-oblong or cylin- 



drical, covered with a membranous coat which soon disap- 

 pears except a small portion at the base, disclosing a felted 

 fibrous mass, in which the seeds are intermixed. 



103. STEMONITIS. Small, stalked, the stalk continued through 



the cylindrical head, and having attached to it the felted 

 or netted filaments in which the seeds are entangled. 



Fungi cup-like, containing lenticular bodies Jilted with the 



104. CYATHUS. Fungus cup-shaped, while young closed by a 

 membrane, afterwards open. Seeds contained in lenticular 

 bodies attached by a pedicel to the bottom of the cup. 



****** j? un gi pulverulent, parasitical, bursting from beneath the 

 epidermis of plants. 



105. STILBOSPORA. Fungi black, compact, composed entirely of 



subglobular grains or capsules. Hab. branches of trees. 



106. SEPTARIA. Parasitical on leaves, the seminal mass escaping 



from an immersed capsule in the form of tendrils, and 

 forming spots on the surface composed of cylindrical joint- 

 ed pellucid bodies or grains. 



107. PUCCINI A. Parasitical on living plants in minute coloured 



spots, and bursting through the epidermis irregularly ; 

 spots formed of stalked subpellucid grains divided into 2 

 or more cells. 



108. UREDO. Parasitical on living plants, in minute coloured 



spots, bursting through the epidermis irregularly ; spots 

 formed of subpellucid globular or oval grains undivided. 



109. .flScimuM. Parasitical on living plants in minute coloured 

 spots ; each spot cup-like with a toothed circular border ; 

 grains free, minute, globular. 



