80 FUNGI. 
TABULAR ARRANGEMENT OF FAMILIES AND 
ORDERS. 
Division I. SPORIFERA. 
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-bearing surface even or rugose. . . 
Hymenium superior or encircling— 
Clavate, or branched, rarely lobed . ° ° 
Lobed, convolute, or disc-like, gelatinous . 
II. Hymenium enclosed in a peridium, ruptured when mature 
Hymenomycetous— 
Subterranean, naked or enclosed . . . 
Terrestrial, hymenium deliquescent . # . 
Peridium enclosing sporangia, containing spores 
Coniospermous— 
Stipitate, hymenium convolute, drying into a 
dusty mass, enclosed in a volva * 
Cellular at first, hymenium drying up into a 
° dusty mass of threads and spores : . 
Gelatinous at first, peridium containing at length 
a dusty mass of threads and spores. 
III. Spores naked, mostly terminal, on inconspicuous threads, 
free or enclosed in a perithecium . . . 
Growing on dead or dying plants— 
Subcutaneous— 
Perithecium more or less distinct . . 
Perithecium obsolete or wanting ° . 
Superficial— 
Fructifying surface naked. 
Spores compound or tomiparous . e 
Parasitic on living plants— 
Peridium distinctly cellular . . . . 
Peridium none— 
Spores sub-globose, simple or deciduous. 
Spores mostly oblong, usually septate . 
Spores naked. 
HymrnoMYCETES, 
Agaricint, 
Polyporei. 
Hydnei. 
Auriculariné, 
Clavarict, 
Tremellini. 
GAsTEROMYCETES 
Hypogei. 
Phalloide. 
Nidulariacet, 
Podaxinei. 
Trichogastres, 
Myzxogastres. - 
ConIoMYCETES. 
Sphwronemet. 
Melanconiei. 
Torulacet. 
Acidiacet. 
Caomacet. 
Puccinici. 
