CLASS XXII. ORDER VI. 139 



5. Recefitacles convex^ more or less globose, cloth" 

 ed tvith a seed-bearing layer, or disk, sessile on 

 the branches, fiafiillary /irocesses, or peculiar 

 stalks of the frond ; terminal and permanent. 



Stereocaulon. Knobs sub-turbinate, at first 

 furnished with a proper border, then globose, with- 

 out stalks, simple or clustered, coloured, perma- 

 nent ; disk at first flat and small, but gradually oc- 

 cupying the whole ; the border of the same unin- 

 terrupted substance and colour, entire, at length 

 obliterated : frond solid, almost woody, caulescent, 

 erect, branched, mostly clothed with scales, rough 

 and fibrous. 57- 2 — ramulosus, (knobbed lichen) 

 fibrous rou^h shrubby scale, knobs dark brown. 



Baemyces. Knobs capitate, nearly globose, 

 %vith reflexed and scarcely bordered edges, termi- 

 nating their own proper fruit-stalks, simple or 

 clustered, coloured, permanent ; disk properly 

 none, the whole globose surface being covered 

 with the thin, solid, seed-bearing coat ; border 

 none : frond either subcrustaceous, softish, granu- 

 lated, indeterminate, rarely figured ; or consisting 

 of a cartilaginous leafy and lobed crust : fruit- 

 stalks elouiiated out of the very substance of the 

 frond, simple or branched, tubular or nearly solid, 

 dilated or tapering upwards, sometimes barren.- 

 57, 2 — cocciferus, (scarlet-mouth lichen) stem and 

 cup greenish grey, knobs scarlet, sessile on the 

 edges of the cup. 



Order VI. Fungi. 

 Agaricus. Fungus with giils underneath- 58 

 1 — camfiestris, (eatable mushroom) gills pink- co- 

 lour, stem white, with volva. 



Merulius. Fungus with veins underneath. 58. 

 \,~^cnrnucoxoides, (veined fungus) stem groved, 

 pileus dull-yellow. 



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