the cup.
Outside covering opening with a torn mouth, Nidularia,
bird's-nest.

4. Outer covering splitting into star-like points, Geaster,
earth star.
Outer covering opening by a single mouth Lycoperdon,
at the top, puff-ball.
Spores at first borne in an egg-like sac, Phallus,
when ripe elevated on a cap at the top of stink-horn
the stem, no veil, has an odious smell, fungus.

SECTION B.

1. Where the sacs soon become free, no special Peziza,
covering, mostly fleshy, cup-like fungi, cup fungus.
Sacs opening from the first, caps pitted
or furrowed, 2.

2. Cap lobed, irregular, saddle-shaped, Helvella,
yellowish fungus.
Cap oval or conical, upper surface with Morchella or Morel,
deep pits formed by long ridges, honey-combed fungus.

(The genera described under Section B. all belong to the order of
Discomycetes, fungi that have the spore sacs collected in a flattened
disc.)

GLOSSARY.

Acute'. Gills when called acute have sharp edges or are pointed at
either end.
Adnate'. Spoken of gills when they are firmly attached to the stem.
Adnex'. A less degree of attachment of gills than adnate.
A'garic. A mushroom that bears gills.
Aluta'ceous. A light leather color.
Anas'tomosing. Interlacing of veins, spoken of gills that are united by
cross veins or partitions.
An'nulus. The ring on the stem of a mushroom, formed by the separation
of the veil from the margin of the cap.
A'pex. The top. The end of the stem nearest to the gills.
Ap'ical. Relating to the apex.
Appendic'ulate. Hanging in small fragments.
Arach'noid. Like a cobweb.
Ar'cuate. Shaped like a bow.
Are'olate. Any surface divided into little areas or patches.
Axis. Stipe or stalk.

Band. A broad bar of color.
Basid'ium (plural basidia). Mother cells in the hymenium.
Behind. Posterior, the end of a gill next to the stem is said to be the
posterior end.
Bifur'cate. Two-forked.
Bulbous. Spoken of the stem when it has a bulb-like swelling at the
base.

Caes'pitose. Growing in tufts.
Campan'ulate. Bell-shaped.
Cap. The pileus.