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fork at their tip and develop two long sterigmata into each of which a 

 nucleus migrates (Fig. 356, 1 to 3). When the sterigmata have reached 

 the outer surface of the gel, each cuts off a hyaline ovoidal spore, into 





m 



Fig. 356. — Dacryomyces dcliquescens. Development of basidia. (X 1,330; after Juel, 



1898.) 



which the nucleus migrates. The two nuclei remaining in the basidium 

 degenerate (Gilbert, 1921). 



At germination, the basidiospore divides into four daughter cells, 

 each of which cuts off on one or two short germ tubes small fascicles of 







Fig. 357. — Dacryomyces deliquescens. 1. Germination of basidiospores in water. 

 2. Germination in concentrated nutrient solution. 3. Portion of conidial hyphae. 4. 

 Diagrammatic section of an oidial fructification. Dacryomyces ovisporus. 5. Germination 

 of basidiospores. (1 to 3 X 240; 4 X 40; 5 X 200; after Brefeld, 1888.) 



tiny conidia (Fig. 357, 1) which are correspondingly more luxuriant in 

 nutrient solution and sometimes surround the basidiospores with a felt 

 (Fig. 357, 2). The conidia develop to mycelia again on suitable sub- 



