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As development proceeds the sexual organs become completely crushed 

 and are at last no longer recognizable. At an early stage it becomes 

 impossible to trace the connection between the ascogenous hyphae and the 

 oogonium, and, during a great part of their development, these depend for 

 their nutrition upon the paraphyses and other vegetative cells. 



A secondary mycelium grows downwards to the substratum, obtaining 

 food material from it and serving for the attachment of the mature ascocarp. 

 Special storage cells appear in the hypothecium. 



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Pezizaceae 



The Pezizaceae form a rather large group. The ascocarp is superficial, 

 sessile or stalked, usually with a well-marked peridium fleshy or waxy in 

 consistency, and soon decaying after maturity. The spores are usually 

 hyaline and continuous (though septate in some small species) and are 

 typically uniseriate. The asci do not project above the level of the disc at 

 maturity, as they do in the Ascobolaceae. The species are mostly sapro- 

 phytic, many occurring on the ground, and a few, especially the smaller 

 forms, on dung. The subdivisions depend on the shape of the spores, the 

 size and consistency of the ascocarp, and the presence or absence of hairs. 



In the majority of forms .the fruit is fleshy and without hairs ; these 

 species are often grouped together in the single genus Peziza, but it is 

 probably more convenient to separate them. The name Peziza is retained 

 for large species with a sessile or subsessile cup, regular in form and two 



