268 ROMANCE OF LOW LIFE AMONGST PLANTS. 



had appeared on sclerotia very many years previously, 

 and known as Sclerotinia sc/erotionim (Fig. 55). 

 It is much smaller than the one above alluded to 



Fig. 54. — Xylaria va^ovaria, nat. size ; B, head enlarged ; c, sectio!i of same ; d, a:,ci 

 and sporidia ; F, paraphyses. 



in connection with the wood anemone. Referring to 

 this species, Mr. Worthington Smith makes the fol- 



