Section B
| 1. | Where the sacs soon become free, no special covering, mostly fleshy, cup-like fungi, | Peziza, 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 deep pits formed by long ridges, | Morchella or Morel, 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.)