Mycological System (1832) - Page 17

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TRICHOGASTRES

IV. CENOCOCCEI, no capillitium, spores initially conglutinated glued together. Radius to the Perisporii.

12. MITREMYCES. Peridium cap-like, double, closed by a mouth with colored scales. No threads.

13. CENOCOCCUM. Peridium horny, simple, not splitting spontaneously. No threads.

*** Genera unknown to me:

a. Diploderma. Peridium double, exterior woody, interior discrete and papery. See between n. 2—3.

b. . . . . . . . . . . Peridium cup-shaped, cellular within? -- See between 7, 10.

c. — — Peridium splitting at the base. No threads. See between 12 and 13.

CRITIQUE. I have assigned the leading place to the Lycoperdinei, as being the center of the Trichogastres; although the Sclerodermei are more complex regarding fructification, and at the same time effect a transition to the Angiogastres. The Podaxidei are especially related to the Lycoperdinei, and the Cenococcei to the Sclerodermei. The color of the spores, being dependent on the location, is less essential for distinguishing genera in this suborder than in the following one.

I. BATARREA Pers.

Pers. syn. p. 129. Nees Syst. p. 249. Fries Syst. orb. veg. 1, p. 128. Dendromyces. Libosch.

CHAR. Peridium composed of a double membrane, distended by jelly, volva-like, splitting in lobes; distinct from the arising, stipitate, pileate, receptacle, which is villous-powdery on top, covered by the interior ruptured membrane of the peridium as a cap. Peridium is subterranean and rooted.

Obs. A wonderful genus, with the fructification indeed of this order, but with the vegetation almost of a Phallus (hence in the System, a Phallodeum genus due to its vegetation). It differs, however, from Phallus by its subterranean morphology and strigose bristly fibrous stipe. By these marks, it inclines toward this order, and there is no lack of evident analogies. Subterranean Geasters...