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FUNGI IMPERFECTi: THE IMPERFECT FUNGI 



Fig. 196. Moniliales, Family 

 Moniliaceae. (A) Verticillium 

 albo-atrum Reinke & Berthold. 

 (B) Gonatorrhodiella parasitica 

 Thaxt. (A, after Lindau, in 

 Engler und Prantl: Die Natlir- 

 lichen Pflanzenfamilien, Leipzig, 

 W. Engelmann. B, after Thax- 

 ter: Botan. Gaz., 16(6):201-215, 

 Univ. Chicago Press.) 



form a brush as in PeniciUium. Closelj^ related to Gliocladium is Clo- 

 nostachys in which the successive whorls of branches of first and second 

 rank are more symmetrical and the conidia are in elongated mucilaginous 

 masses. 



Among the Moniliales there are several genera in which the conidia 

 arise from intercalary enlarged cells in the upright conidiophores. In some 



