Sketch of the Class Fungi. 



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follow, the honourable rank which each has acquired by his 

 labours*. 



Fungi then are agamous vegetables, formed of variously- 

 shaped cells, destitute of epidermis, and consequently of 

 stomata. They consist of a vegetative system {mycelium)^ 

 formed of elongated, simple, or articulated filaments, concealed 

 within the matrix, or creeping and expanded over its surface, 

 from which, according to the different degrees of complication 

 of the fungus, arise extremely varied forms of fructification. 

 The modifications which the fruit receives, either from the 

 mode of evolution of the mycelium, or from the stage at 

 which it is arrested, are such, that we may readily consider 

 as very distinct families the six natural divisions generally 

 established in this class. 



* I shall confine myself here to indicating the sources from which a more 

 or less complete knowledge may be derived of the structure, functions, 

 nomenclature and classification of Fungi, without omitting those which re- 

 late to their useful or noxious qualities. In strict justice I ought to com- 

 mence with Micheli, but I shall begin at a much more recent period. 



Bulliard, Hist, des Champign. de la France, 5 vol. 4to, Paris, 1791. — 

 Paulet, Traite des Champ., 2 vol. 4to, Paris, 1793. — Sowerby, Eng. Fungi, 

 3 vol. fol.Lond. 1799. — Persoon, Synops. Meth. Fungorum, Gott. 1801, 8vo. 

 Traite Champign. comest., 8vo, Paris, 1819. Mycol. Europ., torn. i. ii. iii. 

 8vo, Erlang. 1822—1828, not completed.— Link in Berl. Mag. 1809—1815, 

 and in Spec. Plantar. Linn. ed. Willd., torn. v. vi. — Nees von Esenbeck, 

 Das system der Pilzen und Schwamme, 4to, Nurenb. 1817. — Fries, Syst. 

 Mycol., 3 vol.8vo. Gryphiswald, 1821— 1829.— Syst. Orb. Veget., 8vo, Lund. 

 1825. Elenchus Fungorum, 8vo, 2 vol. Gryphisw. 1828. Eclog. Fung, in 

 Linnsea, t. v. Epicrisis, seu Synopsis Hymenomyc, 8vo, Upsal, 1836 — 1838. 

 — Adolphe Brongniart, Classif. nouv. des Champ, in Diet, class, hist, nat., 

 torn. v. p. 155, &c. — Trattinick, Die Essbare Schwamme CEsterreichs, Wien, 



1830, 8vo (2nd edit.). — Vittadini, Monographia Tuberacearum, Mediol. 



1831, 4to. — Krombholz, Naturgetreue Abbild. der Essbaren schadlichen 

 und verdacht. Schwamme, Prag. 1831. — Roques, Hist, des Champ, comest. 

 et venen., 4to, Paris, 1832. — Unger, Die Exantheme der Pflanzen, Wien, 

 1833, 8vp, and Ann. Sc. Nat., 2 serie, torn. ii. p. 193. — Secretan, Mycog. 

 Suisse, 8vo, 3 vol. Geneve, 1833. — Dutrochet, Obs. sur les Champ., Ac. des 

 Sc. Paris, March 3, 1834.— Klotzsch in Dietrich's Flor. Reg. Bor., 8vo, 

 Berol. 1834. — Corda sur les Antheresde Micheli dans les Champ, charnus, 

 Flora 1834, p. 113-116. Sur les Fibres Spirales des Trichiacees, 1. c. 1838, 

 p. 419. Ic. Fung., torn, i.-iv. fol. Prag. 1837-40. — Berkeley, Fungi in Hook. 

 Eng. Fl., torn. v. p. 2. Lond. 1836, 8vo. On the Fructif. of the Pileate and 

 Clavate tribes, &c, Ann. of Nat. Hist. i. On the Fructification of Phallus, 

 Lycoperdon, &c, Ann. of Nat. Hist., translated by the author in Annales 

 des Sciences Nat., 2 ser. tome xii. p. 160. — Leveille, Rech. sur l'Hym. des 

 Champ., 1. c. t. viii. p. 321. Recherches sur les Uredinees, 1. c. t. xi. p. 5. — • 

 Trog sur la Vegetation Fongique, Flora 1837, p. 609.— Philippar, Traite 

 organ, sur la Carie et la Charbon, &c. 8vo, Versailles, 1837. 



[To which I must add, Sturm's Deutschl. Fl., 3te Abth.— Ehrenberg in 

 Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., torn. x. pars i. 1821 ; the excellent treatise just pub- 

 lished in Ann. d. Sc. Nat. by Tulasne on Elaphomyces, and Montagne pas- 

 sim in Ann. Se. Nat. — M. J. B.] 



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