. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. l Alliance.* Fungi, Jtiss. Gen. 3. (1789) ; DC. Fl. Fr. 2. 65. (1815) ; Nees das Si/stem der Pilze und Schwdmrne,(1817); Fries Syst. Mycolog. (1821) ; 8yst. Orb. Veg. (1825) ; Elench. Fung. (1828) ; AdolpheBrongn. in Diet. Class. 5. 155. (1824) ; Grev. Scott. Crypt. Fl. 6. (1828) ; Hooker British Flora,457. (1830) ; Berk, in Id. vol. 2. (1835); Montagne in Hist, de Cuba Bot. p. 239. (1838-1842),translated, with Notes, in Ann. of Nat. Hist. vol. 9. p. 1. by Berk. (1842; ;
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. l Alliance.* Fungi, Jtiss. Gen. 3. (1789) ; DC. Fl. Fr. 2. 65. (1815) ; Nees das Si/stem der Pilze und Schwdmrne,(1817); Fries Syst. Mycolog. (1821) ; 8yst. Orb. Veg. (1825) ; Elench. Fung. (1828) ; AdolpheBrongn. in Diet. Class. 5. 155. (1824) ; Grev. Scott. Crypt. Fl. 6. (1828) ; Hooker British Flora,457. (1830) ; Berk, in Id. vol. 2. (1835); Montagne in Hist, de Cuba Bot. p. 239. (1838-1842),translated, with Notes, in Ann. of Nat. Hist. vol. 9. p. 1. by Berk. (1842; ; Corda Anleitung, (1842,.—Epiphytje, Link; Grev. Fl. Edin. xxv. (1824).—Gasteromyci, Grev. Fl. Edin. x.\iv. (1824).—Mycetes, Spreng. Syst. 4, 376. (1827).—Uredinese, MucedineBe, and Lycoperdacese, Ad. Brov^ Diet. Class. I. c. (1824).—Byssaceae, (in part) Fr. Syst. Orb. Veg. (1825). Diagnosis.—Cellular floioerless plants, noui^ished throur/h their ihallus {spcmm or myceli-um) ; living in air ; propagated by spores colourless or Irotcn, and sometimes inclosedin asci ; destitute of green gonidia. 1 2. Fig. XIII. Plants consisting of a congeries of cellules or filaments, or both variously combined,increasing in size in the more perfect species by addition to their inside, their outsideundergoing no change after its first formation, chiefly growmg upon decayed organicsubstances, or soil arising from their decomposition, frequently ephemeral, and variouslycoloured, never accompanied as in Lichens by reproductive germs of a vegetable greencalled gonidia ; nourished by juices derived from the matrix. Fructification eitherspores attached externally, and often in definite numbers, to the cellular tissue, andfrequently on pecuhar cells called sporophores or basidia, which ai^e in many by fine processes which immediately support the spores, and called spiculesor sterigmata ; or inclosed in membranous sacs or asci, and then termed of the late
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