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FUNGI. 



TABULAE, ARRANGEMENT OF FAMILIES AND 

 ORDERS. 



DIVISION I. 



SPORIFERA. 



Spores naked. 



. HYMENOMYCETES. 



. Agaricini. 

 . PolyporcL 

 . Hydnei. 



Auricular ini. 



I. Hymenium free, mostly naked, or soon exposed . 

 Hymenium normally inferior 



Fruit-bearing surface lamellose . 



Fruit-bearing surface porous or tubular . 



Fruit-bearing surface clothed with prickles 



Fruit -bear ing surface even or rugose . 

 Hymenium superior or encircling 



Clavate, or branched, rarely lobed . , . Clavariei. 



Lobed, convolute, or disc-like, gelatinous . . Tremellini. 



II. Hymenium enclosed in a peridium, ruptured when mature GASTEROMYCETES. 

 Hymenomycetous 



Subterranean, naked or enclosed . . . Hypogcei. 

 Terrestrial, hymeuiuin deliquescent . . . PhalloideL 

 Peridium enclosing sporangia, containing spores NidulariaceL 

 Coniospermous 



Stipitate, hymenium convolute, drying into a 



dusty mass, enclosed in a volva . . . Podaxinei. 

 Cellular at first, hymenium drying up into a 



dusty mass of thi'eads and spores . . Trichogastres. 



Gelatinous at first, peridium containing at length 

 a dusty mass of threads and spores . . Myxogastres. 



III. Spores naked, mostly terminal, on inconspicuous threads, 



free or enclosed in a perithecium . * . CONIOMYCETES. 



Growing on dead or dying plants 

 Subcutaneous 



Perithecium more or less distinct . . Spharonemei. 

 Perithecium obsolete or wanting . . Melanconiei. 

 Superficial 



Fructifying surface naked. 



Spores compound or tomiparous . . Torulacci. 

 Parasitic on living plants 



Peridium distinctly cellular .... JScidiacei. 

 Peridium none 



Spores sub-globose, simple or deciduous . Cceomacei. 

 Spores mostly oblong, usually septate . Puccinicei. 



