Alliance 5. Fungales. Without a vascular system. Germinating processes either wholly distinct or confluent in a homogeneous body. Born from a matrix which veils them when young Born without a matrix. Living in air. Cellular, rarely filamentous, with a reproductive nucleus bursting through their surface Born without a matrix. Living in water. Filamentous; the filaments either solitary or several glued together, having sporidia and viviparous This group touches Rhizantheæ 291. Fungaceæ Gymnospermæ If the affinities that have thus been explained are correctly stated, a mutual connection of the five great classes in the vegetable kingdom, may be expressed by a circle, in the middle of whose circumference stand Exogens and Endogens, side by side; the common point of all the classes is formed by Acrogens; which are connected on the Chloranthaceae to Gnetaca EXOGENS Ranunculacea Aristolochiacea Fungaceæ. . Stimulant; nutritive. Often poisonous (Ergot. Mushroom. Truffle). Dye (Orchal) Nutritive (Iceland Moss.) Nutritive. one hand with Exogens by Gymnospermæ, and on the other with Endogens by Rhizantheæ. The following scheme will place this idca in a more distinct point of view : Alismacea ENDOGENS Araceae to Balanophoracea |