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cavity, later developing' a stalk which ruptures the peridium, ex- 

 posing the spores ; no capillitium. 



Family 116. Phallaceae. Spore-bearing stalk cylindraceous, 

 hollow, capped by the spore mass. Mutinus, 1 thy phallus, Dicty- 

 ophora. (Pf. I, !=■"-% 289.) 



Family 117. Clathraceae. Spore-bearing stalk ovoid and retic- 

 ulated, or cylindrical and branched above; spore mass capitate or 

 between the branches. Clathrus, Siinbluni, Ascroc. (Pf. I, i**, 

 280.) 



Order Lycoperdales. Spore-fruit fleshy when young, closed, 

 subterranean at first, later superficial, internally filled with irreg- 

 ular spore-bearing canals, or a spore-bearing tissue ; capillitium 

 present. 



Family 118. Lycoperdaceae. Spore-fruit sessile or short- 

 stalked, filled with spore-bearing canals. Lycopcrdon, Bozdsta, 

 G caster. (Pf. I, i**, 315.) 



Family 119. Tylostomataceae. Spore-fruit long-stalked, when 

 young filled with spore-bearing tissue. Tylostoina, Battarca. (Pf. 

 I, I**, 342.) 



Order Nidulariales. Spore-fruit spherical, top-shaped, or 

 cylindrical, leathery, containmg spo're-bearing cavities, which by 

 deliquescence of the surrounding tissues become peridioles ("spo- 

 rangioles"). 



Family 120. Nidulariaceae. Spore-fruits small, sessile upon 

 the ground. Nidnlaria, Crucibuhuii, CyalJius. (Pf. I, i"'^*, 326.) 



Order Sclerodematales. Spore-fruit roundish, containing 

 groups of clustered basidia, bearing terminal spores ; no 

 capillitium. 



Family 121. Sclerodermataceae, Spore-fruit often with a 

 stalk-like base. Podaxoii, Scleroderma, Pisolithns. (Pf. I, i''*, 



329-) 



Family 122. Sphaerobolaceae. Spore- fruit spherical, the glob- 

 ular spore-mass ejected at maturity. Sphaeroholus. (Pf. I, i**, 

 346.) 



Order Hymengmycetales. Spore-fruit when mature from um- 

 brella-shaped to bracket-shaped, branched, fruticose, foliose, and 



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