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hymenium's Usage Examples:

Here we have the cushion-like type (stroma) of Nectria and many Pyrenomycetes, the clavate "receptacle" of Clavaria, 'c., passing into the complex forms met with in Sparassis, Xylaria, Polyporei, and Agaricini, 'c. In these cases the compound sporophore is often termed the hymenophore, and its various parts demand special names (pileus, stipes, gills, po--es, 'c.) to denote peculiarities of distribution of the hymenium owlthe surface.

Among the simplest cases are the sheet-like aggregates of sporogenous hyphae in Puccinia, Uromyces, 'c., or of basidia in Exobasidium, Corticium, 'c., or of asci in Exoascus, Ascocorticium, 'c. In the former, where the layer is small, it is often termed a sorus, but where, as in the latter, the sporogenous layer is extensive, and spread out more or less sheet-like on the supporting tissues, it is more frequently termed a hymenium.

Laudatea), Corella (doubtfully placed here as the hymenium is unknown).

A solution of iodine is also used as a test owing to the blue or wine-red colour which the thallus, hymenium or spores may give with this reagent.

When the fungus predominates in the thallus it has a bracket-like mode of growth and is found projecting from the branches of trees with the hymenium on the under side.

A, Viewed from above; B, From below; hym, hymenium.

The two bestknown genera are Cora and Dictyonema; Corella, whose hymenium is unknown, is also placed here by Wainio.

In these forms gonidia are found in connexion with the young fruit; such algal cells undergo numerous divisions becoming very small in size and penetrating into the hymenium among the asci and paraphyses.

The hypothecium is the basal part of the apothecium on which the hymenium is borne; the latter consists of asci (thecae) with ascospores, and paraphyses.

The two principal parts of which an apothecium consists are the hypothecium and the hymenium, or thecium.

hymenium's Meaning':

spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia