DISCOMYCETES 



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sessile or stipitate, often tufted from a common or stromatic 

 base, tough or horny, usually scurfy outside. 



Dermateae. 



: 



FIG. 79. Cyttaria gunnii, an edible fungus parasitic 

 on the evergreen beech in Tasmania, i, groups of asco- 

 phores on living branch ; 2, section of an ascophore ; 3, 

 ascus containing eight spores : one paraphysis is also 

 present. One quarter nat. size. 



Ascophore turbinate, cup-shaped or discoid ; gelatinous 

 when growing, hard and horny when dry. 



Bulgarieae. 



