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small, entire, ovate haustoria. Conidiophores erect, 

 sparingly branched ; conidia generally papillate. Oospores 

 globose, epispore thin, smooth, brownish. 



Plasmopara viticola, Berl. et De Toni, Sacc, SylL, vii. 

 p. 239 {\%^%) — Peronospora viticola, De Bary. — Mycelial 

 hyphae thick, often constricted and varicose, haustoria 

 minute, spherical ; conidiophores fasciculate, coming to 

 the surface through the stomata, slender, 250-850 /x high, 

 branched near the apex ; primary branches 3-5, alternate, 

 secondary branches short, 3-4-furcate, ultimate branchlets 

 pointed, straight, short, usually 4, bearing the ovoid, smooth, 

 colourless, not papillate, very variable in size, smallest 

 8x12 /x, the largest 17X30 \i •. oospores subglobose, 

 30-35 /x diam., wall thin, brownish, smooth or slightly 

 wrinkled epispore, often very numerous in dead portions 

 of the host plant. 



Bremia, Regel. — Mycelium with vesicular or clavate, 

 simple haustoria : conidiophores repeatedly dichotomously 

 branched, tips oi ultimate branchlets vesicular and bearing 

 several short, subulate sterigmata ; conidia sphaeroid, 

 papillate; oospores globose, minute, epispore yellowish- 

 brown, subrugulose. 



Bremia lactucae, Regel, Bot. Zfg., 1843, P- 665, tab. iii., 

 f. B. — Mycelium stout, often contorted ; haustoria clavate, 

 simple ; conidiophores 2-6 times dichotomously, or some- 

 times trichotomously branched, ultimate branchlets inflated 

 at the tips, the inflated portion bearing several conical, 

 short spicules, each bearing a subglobose conidium with a 

 broad, depressed apical papilla, 16-23 /^ .• oospores globose 

 yellowish-brown, pellucid, epispore rugulose, 25-35 /x. 



Peronospora, Corda. — Mycelium generally bearing fill- 



