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JOURNAL OF THE 



[April, 



fruiting stem issues usually from the head, but sometimes from 

 the articulations, of the pupa, and it rises in the air to perfect 

 its fruit (See Fig. 5). Commonly there is only one stem from 

 one pupa, but occasionally several are 

 found. The stem, together with its head, 

 is from one to two inches long, and its color 

 is orange-red. The entire surface of the 

 head is thickly studded with the conical im- 

 mersed perithecia, which contain the sacs 

 and spores. Fig. 5 shows a few of these 

 perithecia z'« situ, magnified seventy diam- 

 eters, but less crowded relatively than in 

 the object it- 

 self. The same 

 figure shows 

 one of the 

 s p o r e-c a s e s 

 from these per- 

 ithecia. These 

 cases are un- 

 usually long 

 and slender, 

 and are filled 

 with the long, 

 thread-like 

 spores, two of 

 which are here 

 figured. The 

 spores are near- 

 ly as long as 

 the cases which 

 contain them, 

 and are divid- 

 ed by a multi- 

 tude of trans- 

 verse septa 

 into minute 

 joints. 



Your attention is called to one more native species, the Tor- 

 rubia clavulata, Schw., represented in Fig. 6. It infests the 



Fig. 3. — W h i t e-G rub 

 Fungus (after Riley). 



Fig. 4. — Fructification of White- 

 Grut) Fungus (after Berlceley.) 



