304 DopGE: LACHNEA WITH A BOTRYOSE CINIDIAL STAGE 
The conidia are spherical, smooth, faintly colored, pale 
ochraceous buff in mass, 7-9 v. in diameter. The ascogonia 
begin to appear, as noted, in about ten days, and mature fruit 
bodies will be formed within two or three weeks. Fraser lays 
considerable stress on the branching of the trichogyne end of 
the ascogonium of L. cretea, thinking such vegetative growth 
the “progressive degeneration” of Atkinson, indicates that the 
species is becoming apogamous. Many such abnormal or 
aborted ascogonia are always found in cultures of these Dis- 
comycetes and they should be carefully distinguished from those 
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Fic. 6. Hairs from the margin of the apothecium, ascus with spores and 
paraphyses. 
1G. 7. Part of a section of a small ashe showing the character of 
the cells of the wall and of the margin 
normal primoridia which develop into fruit bodies. Ascocarps of 
L. abundans (Fic. 7) are 1-3 mm. in diameter and uniformly 
ochraceous in color. The hairs (Fic. 6) are about 150 u long, 
the asci 130-150 u, and the ascospores 7-8 x 12-14 pn. The 
paraphyses, which are enlarged rather abruptly at the ends, are 
4-5 wu broad. 
It is certainly dangerous to place too much weight on the 
asexual spore forms in determining relationships of their ascogen- 
ous stages in the face of these apparently anomalous cases and 
such others as we findin Ascobolus magnificus, whichis connected 
