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THE LARGER FUNGI 
Olcba ti'aTei’Sod witli an evident simple or dendroid 
columella. 
Spores smooth JTysterangium. 
Spores verrucose or areolate Dendrogaster. 
Spores longitudinally ribbed Gautieria. 
SECOTIACEAE. 
Peridium indehiscent, usually epigaean, carried upon a prominent stem which 
traverses tlie gleba as a columella, of 1 or 2 layers. 
With the characters of the family Seootmm. 
III. LYCOPEEDALES. 
Peridium usually epigaean, sessile or stipitate, of 2, .“I, or 4 layers, dehiscing 
by an apical j)ore (or by several such), by weatheiing of the apex of the 
endoperidium, circumscissile cleavage of the emloperidium, or by irregrdar rupture 
of this membrane. Gleba at maturity pulverulent, with a copiously developed 
capillitium. Pasidia I to 8-spored. Spores hyaline or coloured, variously shaped, 
smooth or variously sculptured. 
TULOSTOMATACEAE. 
Peridium stipitate, of 2 layers, borne at the apex of a simple but well developed 
stem wliich in Piodaxon traverses the gleba as a columella. Basidia bearing 1 to 
4 spores, which, may be apically or laterally {Tidosioma) attached. 
PODAXONOIDEAE. 
Basidia arranged in fasciculate clusters which arc persistent at maturity. 
PODAXONEAE. 
Peridium carried at the apex of a stem which traverses 
the gleba as air axile columella, dehiscing by 
longitudinal fissuring Podaxon. 
PIIELBORINEAE. 
Peridium seated on the flattened expanded apex of the stem. 
Peridium dehiscing by irregular weathering of the 
ajK'x of the peridium Phellorina. 
Peridium dehiscing by a definite apical stoma . . . . Ohlamvydopus. 
TULOSTOMOIDEAE. 
Basidia not fasciculate, disappearing at maturity. 
TULOSTOMEAE. 
Elaters not ])resent in the gleba. 
Peridium dehiscing by a definite apical stoma . . . . TuJostoma. 
Peridium dehiscing by irregular weathering of the apex 
of the peridium (Queletia). 
BATTAKRAKAE. 
Elaters present in the gleba. 
Peridium dehiscing by circumscissile cleavage of the 
apical hemisphere of the peridium Battarraea. 
LYCOPERDACEAE. 
Peridium sessile, of 2, 3 or 4 layers, dehiscing by an apical utioma, or by 
several such, by weathering of the apex, or irregular rupture. Basidia 4 to 
8-spored. Spores globose or elliptical. 
