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is emitted through a fiffure of the Pericarp,- which is generally torn in the
top, and in the progrefs of age, leaves the, membranaceous bark, in which
it was enclofed, empty.
GENUS VII. NIDULA RIA.
A fmall Fungus, leather-like, membranaceous, feflile, in the form of
g. cup or inverted bell, holding feeds at the bottom, refembling lentils j
very broad and foot-ftalked.
GENUS. VIII.. HYP 0: XTL 0 Ar.. .
A fmall Fungus, leathery or woody, at firft it is fprinkled over with a
male duft, generally very confpicuous, it nouriihes its very numerous feedsmixed
with a glutinous juice in little, cells, and is therefore monoecius..
GENU S IX. l{ EL.IO LA RIA.
A fmall Fungus, of a woody, orTeathery lubflance; fometimes compofeil
of many fmall cells, joined together in form of a ftud j \fometimgS of one
ii.ngle cell-, rifing on the barks of dead or dying trees, remaining more or
lefs deeply fixed among their ftrata, and covered with an epidermis.. It:
nouriihes its feeds, mixed with a glutinous.juice, in little cells..
G E N U S X.- CL ATHR U.S..
A Fungus eompofed of fleihy branches, long and round, continued'
among themfelves; crofs-barred or latticed, and asf it-were arched; nou-'
riihing its feeds within.; hitherto we know only one, Clathrus, it is volvaceous,
feflile, and produces feeds mixed in a moift fubftance.
G KNU S XI, : CI A VA. R I A.-.
Along, cylindrical; or club-ihaped Fungus:, vertical, and emitting
feeds from ail- the parts of its furface-.
GEN#!S XII. TR F..ME.L LA..
A gelatinous, cartilagenous, and fometimes fleihy Fungus, varioufly
expanded in breadth, moflly feflile, and emitting feeds from all the parts,,
of its furface.. GENUS.
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..GENUS XIII. PEZIZA.
A Fungus hollowed out at the top, in form of a bowl, a ihield, a box,
a bladder, or purfe; and from this part only emitting feeds, fometimes
by jerks, with intermiflioris, as if caufed by irritation.
GENUS XIV. . PHALLUS. '
A foot-ftalked Fungus ; the upper part in the form of a hat, hollowed
out in cells, and from thefe only pouring out feeds.
GENUS" XV. AURICULA RIA.
- A Fungus, feflile, and generally membranaecus, growing to trunks of
trees, or the ground, by-all its inferior furface; as it grows,older, and .is
more unfolded, it is lbpfened, and turned upfide down;, it emits feeds
from the fuperidr furface, then become the inferior, but m a flow and long
lapfe of time..
;. GENUS; XVI, ' , HE LVE L L A.
A Fungus, generally growing perpendicularly, never, while unfold*
ang, departing , from its original habit;
emitting feeds, m a ihort time
f wm its inferior furface, (which is either fmooth or veiny,) with jets at
intervals, as if caufed by irritation.
. . " G E n J s : XVII. H YD NUM.
A Fungus, expanded, on the lower fide, into folid prickles generally
cylindrical; pointing ftrait to the ground, and emitting feeds from every
point of their furface. .
„. GKNUS XVIII. FISTULINA.
A Fungus, expanded in the lower furface, into.feparate tubes, like the
prickles o f the Hydnum, and in theft tubes nouriftimg its feeds. Only
one,;fpecies of this genus has hitherto offered itfelf to obfervation; it is
fleihy, foft, and divided into two parts.