Mycological System (1832) - Page 14

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TRICHOSPERMI
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tropics, or even northern America, have already provided them.

DIVIDED by vegetation into two suborders:
I. TRICHOGASTRES hairy-stomachs (i.e., Lycoperdinei). Initially fleshy-hardened.
II. MYXOGASTRES mucus-stomachs. Initially mucilaginous.

CRITIQUE. If greater weight is given to vegetation than to fructification, these suborders must be considered as autonomous (Compare Schrader, Nov. gen. pl. praefat. pp. VI, VII); and indeed the Trichodermacei should then also be counted among the Trichogastres. However, there are evident transitions. The peridiola little peridia of Polysaccum are Myxogastres, while the common peridium is Trichogaster. Mitremyces is covered by a gelatinous-mucilaginous integument, Lycogala by a peridium that is fully developed at the start. And in the fructification of Lycogala and Tulostoma, or rather the Brazilian Lycoperdon, there is not even the slightest difference. It has therefore seemed safer, in this place at least, to follow the stronger reasons that recommend a carpological system system based on fruit/fructification.

Suborder 1. TRICHOGASTRES.
Gasterom. ser. 2. Link diss. 1. l. c. Lycoperdinei. S. M. 1. p. XL. — Genus Lycoperdon Bull. Champ. !

CHAR. Initially fleshy, hardened.

VEGETATION. Like most fungi, it arises from a distinct mycelium, the filaments of which coalesce into rounded and solid tubercles, which are initially similar within. From this mycelium, the rootlets (lacking only in subterranean species) and the exterior cortex of the peridium are also formed. The interior gleba spore-bearing mass then becomes softer and somewhat pulpy, and finally disintegrates upon drying into spores. The threads arise from the peridium. The exterior cortex, or if you prefer, the exterior peridium, is lacking only in Cenococcum, which also lacks threads. -- The color of the spores is intimately connected with the vegetation. Genera that are always subterranean, for example Elaphomyces and Cenococcum, have black spores; those that are initially subterranean and then emerge, such as most, have brown spores; those evolved freely in the light, for example...