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Among the Mushrooms

by Ellen M. Dallas and Caroline A. Burgin

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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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