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trichog)ne is fertilised by the contact with it of one of the young hairs. 

 The perithece contains a number of asci, and these eight or twelve double 

 ascospores. The ripe double ascospore attaches itself to a fresh host by 

 one of its ends, and develops into the new plant. 



Fig. 312. — A : h — h, Stigjnatoinyccs Baeri Peyr. {St. M7isccz Karsten). A, optical longi- 

 tudinal section of ripe specimen with organ of attachment at base ; the asci are seen 

 through wall of perithece. a, ever^'where the appendage ; b, an isolated ascus with spores ; 

 c — h, stages of development of perithece and appendage in order of letters. B, Laboiil- 

 bc7iia Jlagcllata Peyr. a, the appendage. {,A, c, g, h x 350 ; b, d, e.f x 450 ; B x 125.) 

 (After Pej-ritsch.) 



2. ExoASCUS (Fiickel). — The species of Exoascus mostly attack 

 fruits, and set up in them sometimes conspicuous deformities. While 

 some of them possess a mycele which penetrates the parenchyme of the 

 fruit, tScc. (e.g. E. Pruni, Fckl., E. deformans, Fckl.), others extend no 

 farther than between the cuticle and the epiderm-cells. In the former 

 case the terminal cells of the hyphcX which emerge from the surface 



