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C. Ascophore more or less rudimentary, minute, 

 immersed in the matrix, waxy, usually light coloured. 



Sticteae. 



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FIG. 80. Peziza vesiculosa, a typical ascigerous fungus be- 

 longing to the Discomycetes, which exhibits the peculiarity 

 of puffing out the spores in clouds from the asci. Nat. size. 



Ascophore minute, waxy, buried in the matrix, usually 

 blackish, dehiscing through the splitting of the matrix. 



Phaddeae. 



D. Ascophore superficial, rigid, glabrous, circular, 

 sessile, blackish. Minute, circular, scattered or gregarious. 



Patellarieae. 



E. Stroma superficial, erect, branched. 

 Ascophores cup-shaped, at the tips of the branches of 

 the stroma. Cordieriteae. 



