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CRYPTOGAMIA. 
Class XXIV. 
Tribe III. HYPHOMYCETES. 
Thallus flocculent. 
Class I. Cephalotrichi. 
Receptacle distinct, covered over with flocci, with sporidia scattered among them. 
2465. Ceratium. Filaments very short, pellucid, simple, minute, attached to a membranaceous, plicate, 
simple or branched, filiform receptacle. 
2466. Isaria. Filaments minute and pellucid, attached to an elongated, simple or branched, clavate, carnose 
receptacle. 
Class II. Stilboidei. 
Fibres grown together upon the receptacle. Sporidia inclosed in a separate naked head. 
2467. Stilbum. Minute. Stipes slender, bearing a little round solid head, which is pellucid and semifluid at 
first, at length more dense and opake. 
Class III. Inomycetes. 
Fibres genuine, somewhat separated by divisions. Receptacle none. Upon putrescent organic matter. 
Division I. Byssacei. 
Opake fibres, bearing sporce inside, when fertile jointed, when sterile contiguous. Repel moisture. 
2468. Torula. Thallus composed of branched, rigid, fragile, moniliform, subopake filaments, the articula- 
tions minute, globose. 
2469. Monilia. Fibres numerous, erect, opaque, distinctly articulated, permanent. Articulations ovate. 
2470. Racodium. Thallus composed of branched, decumbent, interwoven, jointless, persistent, subopake 
filaments, among which are sometimes granules of moniliform filaments. 
2471. Dematium. Fibres decumbent or ascending, rigid, opake, branched, continuous in all directions, 
permanent. 
2472. Cladospo)-ium. Thallus composed of erect, rigid, subopake, jointed, simple or branched, aggregate 
filaments. Sporules ovate, attached in a series to the filaments, deciduous. 
2473. Helicosporium. Fibres erect, rigid, nearly simple, opake. Sporules spiral, remotely jointed, some that 
are fugacious scattered among tiiem. 
2474. Oxonium. Thallus composed of decumbent, branched, entangled filaments : primary ones thick, 
irregular ; ultimate ones fine-jointed. 
2475. Rhizomorpha. Receptacle much branched, elongated, coriaceous or ligneous. Perithecia arising from 
the branches, mostly clavate, dehiscent at the apex. 
Division II. Mucedines. 
Flocci pellucid, with dissepiments, bearing sporte on the outside. 
2476. Sepedonium. Thallus formed of entangled filaments, spreading within putrefying fungi. Sporidia 
scattered, globose. (Bright yellow.) 
2477. Acremonium. Thallus composed of decumbent, entangled, branched, pellucid filaments. Sporidia 
globose, solitary, pedicellate. 
2478. Sporotrichum. Thallus minute, tufted or expanded. Sporidia scattered among the branched, tubular 
jointed filaments. 
2479. Trichothecium. Filaments minute, branched, forming a tufted thallus. Sporidia scattered, subglobose, 
didymous. 
2480. Acrosporium. Thallus composed of minute, tufted, pellucid, moniliform, simple filaments, the upper, 
most joints (sporidia) separating spontaneously. 
2481. Botrytis. Thallus composed of decumbent, entangled, branched, pellucid filaments. Sporidia globose, 
solitary, pedicellate. 
2482. Aspergillus. Thallus composed ot minute, pellucid, scattered or tufted filaments, apex of the main 
filament mostly clavate, on which is a head of (often beaded) sporidia. 
2483. Stachylidium. Thallus composed of tufted, pellucid filaments : sterile ones procumbent ; fertile ones 
erect, whorled, with ramuli near the top, among which the sporidia are collected. 
2484. Penicillium. Thallus composed of tufted, pellucid filaments : sterile ones procumbent ; fertile ones erect, 
bearing a terminal pencil-like tuft of erect ramuli, to which the sporidia are attached. 
248.5. Trichoderma. Sporidia collected in the centre, free, the filaments woven into a web-like covering, at 
length opening at the apex and discharging the globose sporidia. 
Class IV. PHYLLERIACEiE. 
Fibres spurious, contiguous, bearing spores inside. Receptacle none. On living leaves. 
2486. Rubigo. Fibres infundibuliform or clavate, twisted, situated in patches upon sickly leaves. 
2487. Erineum. Peridia flocciforra, subdiaphanous, various, subsimple, aggregato-CEespitose, parasitic on 
living leaves. Sporules sometimes, but rarely evident. 
Tribe IV. CONIOMYCETES. 
Sporidia naked, without any heterogeneous receptacle. 
Class I. TUBERCULARI^. 
Sporidia naked, simple, scattered over the receptacle. 
2488. Tubercularia. Sporangium subglobose, sessile, or somewhat stipitate, carnoso-vesiculose ( not 
gelatinous). Sporidia towards the circumference (color mostly red). 
2489. Fusarium. Minute, subglobose, naked, almost wholly formed of fusiform, free, jointless sporidia. 
2490. Exosporimn. (See Notes.) 
Observations. 
Tribe III. Hyphomycetes. Distinguished from other tribes by their flocculent thallus. In no other tribe 
do flocci occur in so perfect a state of developement, although they undoubtedly exist as subordinate organs in 
the Uterini and Hymen omycetes. 
Class IV. Phylleriacets. These are perhaps morbid states of the outer integuments of plants. This at 
least seems obvious in Phyllerium Rubi, Gei, &c. which are nothing but the hairs of the leaves in a clustered 
and somewhat altered form. This also may be the reason why there are no sporidia. 
Tribe IV. Coniomycetes. To this are referred those fungi in which the sporidia are of a more obvious nature 
than the other parts of the plant, and so constitute the essence of the fungus. Hence they are more evolved 
than in any other class. The receptacle, if present, arises either out of united pedicels, or of united sporidia. 
