NIDULA'RIA. (NEST-WORT. E.) Bull. 488.

Fungus bell-shaped, leather-like, sessile.

CAPSULES large, flat, fixed by the pedicles to the bottom of the bell.

PHALLUS. (MOREL. E.) Curt. 199.

(PILEUS on a stem, smooth underneath, cellular on its upper surface: the cells containing sporuliferous slime. E.)

CLAVA'RIA. (CLUB-TOP. E.) Schmid. 15.

Fungus upright, smooth, oblong, surface uniform. SEEDS emitted from every part of the surface.

TUBER. (TRUFFLE. E.) Bull. 356. Bolt. 116.

Fungus stemless, solid, fleshy, not becoming powdery, nor opening at the top.

LYCOPER'DON. (PUFF-BALL. E.) Bolt. 117.

Fungus roundish, opening irregularly at the top, full of powder-like impalpable seeds intermixed with wool-like filaments.

RETICULA/RIA. (SEED-NET. E.) Bull. 476. 1. Bolt. 134.

Fungus soft and gelatinous, becoming firm and friable, opening indiscriminately.

SEEDS entangled in wool-like fibres, net-work membranes, or leather-like

cases.

SPHÆRIA. (SEED-BALL. E.) Bolt. 180.

Fungus of various shapes.

Fructifications mostly spherical, filled with a gelatinous, or powdery mass, (the seeds,) without fibres, opening at the top. E.)

OBS. The capsules are often immersed in the substance of the plant, so that their orifices only are visible.

TRICHIA. (HAIR-GLOBE. E.) Bull. 502. 1.

CAPSULES sessile or on a stem, globular, or oblong, mostly fixed to a membranous base.

SEEDS escaping from the whole surface of the capsule through the interstices of the fibres.

MU'COR. (MOULD. E.) Mich. 91. 2 and 95.

(SEEDS numerous, naked, or in transparent vesicles, supported on fruit-stalks: pedicles simple or branched, tubular, articulated. E.)

(URE'DO. (BLAST. E.) Pers.

Fungus parasitic, very minute, undermining the epidermis of the leaves and stalks of plants, bursting forth in longitudinal or oval patches.

Fructifications clavated heads, opening either laterally or at the top, giving forth numerous seeds without fibres intermixed. E.)