Methodical Synopsis of Fungi

the nature of the species, its size, thickness, substance, and insertion. It is absent in very many cases, and in very few instances is it branched.

§. 4.

The receptaculum receptacle/fruiting body generally constitutes the fungus itself, and thus it bears the fruit-bearing parts. In different species, it occurs under various forms, which have been given the following names.

1. The Pileus cap in fleshy, large, and open fungi (especially of the second class) is hemispherical, or halved (dimidiate), and in resupinate lying flat against the substrate fungi, it is effused spread out. The substance varies between fleshy, suberose corky, tremellose gelatinous, and membranaceous.
2. The Peridium outer wall of the fruit body in fungi (of the first class) is membranaceous and dry, generally filled with copious powder.
3. Cupulaeforme cup-shaped in pezizoid fungi.
4. Capituliforme head-shaped in minute or mold-like fungi.
5. In some species, it is also called a perithecium flask-like structure containing spores, especially in hard, gelatinous, or gelatinous substances consisting of thecae spore sacs (when examined under a microscope).
6. The receptaculum in some is elongated, terete cylindrical/rounded, simple, and branched. (Clavaria).
7. In others, it occurs as a crust-like membrane, for example in Trichia.
8. In Sphaeria, it is fleshy-suberose and is called a stroma a dense mass of fungal tissue.
9. In Byssoideis thread-like fungi, it consists of compact threads or fibers.

§. 5.

The pileus is further distinguished by the part immediately containing the seeds, which is called the Hymenium or fructifying membrane; in the Helvelloids, this,