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Natural Order. 



Genus and Species. 



Vernacular or English 

 name, use, habitat, &c. 



Sub-Class 2,...THALL0PHYTiE.* (Leafless cellular cryptogams.) 



103. Fungi. 



Sub-order — 



Carp omycetes 

 (Mushrooms), 



Hypoxylon atropurpu- 



reum, Fr. 



,, serpens, Fr... 



Xylaria polymorpha, Fr.. 

 b irneola auricula-Judee 



Fr. 

 Tremella mesentrica,jRete. 

 Calocera viscosa, Fr 



Corticium Iseve, Britz. ... 



„ violaceum,Z'ir'- 



tikar, 



Clavaria itiequalis, BerJc,, 



„ fusiformis, Sow. 



„ cinerea, BnlL ... 

 „ alba, Kirtikar ... 



Thelephora palraata, Fr.. 



„ terrestris, 



Berh. 



Hydnum aureum, i^r, ... 



Boletus luridus, Schaeffer. 



Polyporus spongia, Britz. 

 „ hirsutus, Britz. 



„ annuosus,J5nte 

 „ perennis, i^r... 



„ crassipes, Cur. 



rey. 

 ,, cinnabarin u s , 

 Fr 



Doedalia gibbosa, Eng 



„ ferruginea 



Schum. 



Trametes umbrinus, Cur- 



rey 



Hexagonia Kurzi, Currey. 



» Thallpphytes are plants which have no leaves and no vapculat tissue, but are con- 

 structed of cells only. (Thom^ and Bennett, p. 239.) The Zygomycetes are " common 

 mould-fungi, growing on living plants, decaying vegetable substances, or the fine surface 

 of organic solutions." (lb., p. 271.) The Myxomycetes or Slime Fungi " are distinguished 

 from all other plants by the fact of their cells being without a cell-wall during the whole 

 of their vegetative period. It is only when their protoplasm comes to rest, or their growth 

 has ceased on the formation of the fructification, that the protoplasm breaks up into small 

 cells^ provided with a cell-wall, but not forming a true issue. They live on decaying and 

 putrefyino- vegelablp Piibstancps." (lb., p. L'Gft.) ' _-- -':.-'"■ .^ 



