ORDER MONILIALES (hYPHOMYCETEAE) 



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Fig. 203. Moniliales. (A) 

 Family Tuberculariaceae. Epi- 

 coccum nigruyn Link. (B, C) 

 Family Stilbellaceae. (B) Sty- 

 sanus stemonites (Pers.) Corda. 

 (C) Graphium rigidimi (Pers.) 

 Sacc. (A, after Lindau, in 

 Engler and Prantl: Die Natiir- 

 lichen Pflanzenfamilien, Leipzig, 

 W. Engelmann. B, after Hassel- 

 bring: Bota7i. Gaz., 29(5) :312- 

 322, Univ. Chicago Press. C, 

 after Hedgcock : Missouri Botan. 

 Garden Ann. Rep., 17:59-114.) 



short or rarely long conidiophores arising from a cushion of fungal tissue 

 (sporodochium). This varies in color and consistency and the conidia and 

 conidiophores also show parallelism to the Moniliaceae and Dematiaceae. 

 The artificiality of the group is seen in the fact that the production or 

 nonproduction of the sporodochium often depends upon the cultural con- 

 ditions. Thus the author has grown Colleiotrichum gloeosporioides Penz. so 

 that it produced its normal acervuli, but in older drier cultures true 

 sporodochia appeared. Later the latter enlarged and became thrown into 



