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588 235.Cyathus.9.GASTEROMYCE^. PLcellaph.
4. Cyathus scutellaris. Saucer cup-mushronm.
Sporangia globular, grey; inside pale whitish; peridiola
white, afterwards blackish.
Cyathoidcs scutellatiim, ore crispo, friictibus nigris majoribus, Micheli
N, Gen. 202, 4.
Persoon Syn. 239.
Cyathus scutellaris, Roth Cat. 1,217 ;
Cyathus coraplauatus, De Candolle Syn. 56 ?
On the ground, in woods.
Sporangia the size of a large pea, at first globular, then
hemispherical ; edge not cut.
Fam. X. 10. SARCOTHECEyE. Fungorum pars, Linnaeus,
Jussieu. Fungi sarcocarpi, Persoon.
Vegetabiliumfungosoram pars, Esenbeck.
Thallus solid, entirely covered with a membranaceous
or leatherlike epidermis ; ^e^/j becoming cellular; sporidia
scattered in the substance of the flesh.
A. Thallus solid, globular ; inside smooth. Sclerotidese.
Thallus globular; basis radiated Erysibe. 236.
Thallus tuberous; basis creeping,
rootlike
Thanatophyton. 237.
Thallus roundish; basis not expanded
SCLEROTIUM. 238.
B. Thallus globular; inside cellular, or veiny. Tuberideae.
Thallus subterraneous ;
sporidia pedicelled
inside veiny
Tuber. 239.
C. Thallus irregular, gelatinous Jibrous, cellular ; sporidia
scattered, immersed. Tremellidese.
Thallus variously formed
spor. in the inside only Tremella. 240.
Thallus dilated, in folds;
spor. internal and external Gyraria. 241.
Thallus caulescent, slightly branched
spor. internal and external Coryne. 242.
A. Sclerotide^. Thallus variously shaped, mostly
lobular,
f
ermis.
solid, obscurely cellular, covered with an epi