The entire group is sometimes spoken of as discomycetes or cup-fungi, because many of the plants belonging here are shaped something like a disk, or like a cup.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson
But in the discomycetes the hymenium soon becomes more or less exposed, and in the latter it is enclosed in a perithecium.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
In all essential particulars there is a great similarity in the structure of the other discomycetes, especially in their reproductive system.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke