Section A
| 1. | Fungi covered with a hard rind, | Scleroderma. |
| 2. | In which the spores when ripe turn to dust, | 4. |
| Where spores are at first closed in a cup-like sac that resembles a bird’s-nest, | 3. |
| 3. | Fungi with the outside covering bowl-shaped of one cottony layer, | Crucibulum, the Crucible. |
| Outside covering tubular, trumpet-shaped, of 3 layers, | Cyathus, 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 at the top, | Lycoperdon, puff-ball. |
| Spores at first borne in an egg-like sac, when ripe elevated on a cap at the top of the stem, no veil, has an odious smell, | Phallus, stink-horn fungus. |
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