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THE LARGER FUXGI 
AURICULARIACEAE. 
Receptacle floecose or gelatinous-mucoid, effused. Pro- 
basidia in the form of a sac, pendent laterally, and 
giving rise to a basidium with three transvei'se 
partitions. Sterigmata lateral (one terminal). Spores 
hyaline, smooth Saccohlastia. 
Receptacle dry, coriaceous-membranous or crustaceous, 
effused. Probasidia ovoid or spherical, with thickened 
walls, coloured, producing a hyaline basidium, straight 
or curved, transversely septate. Lichenoid plants, 
growing on living bark Septohasidkim. 
Receptacle effused, incrusting, membranaceous, soft, 
floecose. Hyiuenium smooth. Basidia more or less 
incurved, transversely septate; sterigmata subulate, 
unilateral. Spores white Tlelicobasidnim. 
Recei)taele cjtused or upright, thin, waxy or gelatinous. 
Hymenium smooth. Basidia cylindrical, straight, 
transversely septate. Spores white Platygloea. 
Receptacle dimidiate, cup-shaped, sessile, substipitate, 
gelatinous coriaceous, then cartilaginous. Hymenium 
smooth, reticulate or ribbed. Basidia cylindrical, 
transversely 3-septate. Spores white, cylindrical or 
subreniform Auricularia. 
Receptacle erect, filiform lor subclavate. Hymenium 
smooth. Basidia cylindrical, transversely 3-septate. 
Spores white . . . . Eocronartium. 
Receptacle erect, globose, stipitate. Hymenium consist- 
ing of branched threads terminated by a basidium. 
Basidia short, ])ear-shaped, transversely 1-septate. 
Spores wh.ite, elliptical. Growing on dead wood . . Sidhum. 
ECCHYNINEAE. 
Same characters as suborder Ecciiynaceae. 
ECCHYNACEAE. 
Peridium globose, stipitate or substipitate, thin, 
fugacious. Threads of gleba bearing the basidia on 
their lower portion, either in tufts or scattered. 
Basidia transversely 3-septate, bearing the spores 
ebher sessile or on verv short sterigmata. Spores 
brown ' Eechyna. 
TREMELLALES. 
Basidia longitudinally cruciately divided, subglobose. 
TREMELLINEAE. 
Same character as the order. 
Basidia catenulate*, the septa usually oblique; basidio- 
spores sessile Sirobasidiaoeae. 
Basidia not catenulate, the septa usually longitudinal or 
nearly so; basidiospores borne on sterigmata at the tips of 
epibasidia Tremellaceae. 
^Arranged like a chain. 
SIROBASIDIAOEAE. 
With the characters of the family Sirdbasidium. 
