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Among the Mushrooms

by Ellen M. Dallas and Caroline A. Burgin

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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.)

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