Methodical Synopsis of Fungi

If it includes the whole fungus along with the stipe, it is called a volva sheath; if it covers only the pileus, especially the hymenium, it is called an annulus ring. This, when it occurs only as arachnoid threads, is then called a cortina cobweb-like veil or velum veil, to which the teeth and cilia in Peziza also pertain, as well as the whitish powder and tomentum fuzz in Sphaeria. According to Johannes Hedwig, it contains the male organs.

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Besides these parts, warts (in Lycoperdon), scales, hairs, and tomentum are seen in some.

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The native habitat in various species is diverse; in most it is parasitic, just as most aphyllous leafless plants are parasitic. All the most minute species, for example Sphaeria, Peziza, Trichia, Aecidium, etc., grow on rotting trunks or on leaves. All dimidiate halved, suberose corky (mostly), and effused species in larger fungi are also trunk-grown. However, most Agarici appear on the ground in forests (especially pine forests), while others, especially those that grow on dung, love meadows and manure heaps. Some fungi are subterranean.

ANGIOCARPI. Closed fungi. Fungi that are closed, or bearing their seeds mostly in great quantities internally.

SCLEROCARPI. Hard-fruited fungi. Fungi that are rather hard with a soft internal substance.