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1 Cordyceps Taylori, a pyrenoniycetous Furtjn which attacks caterfullars; the branched antler-like stroma has developed 

 from tlie Sclerotium, and its lower warted portion bears the perithecia. 2 Three perithecia; enlarged. 3 a perithecium 

 in section. ■* Two asci containing filamentous .spores, ä Vertical section of a peritliecium of Xylaria llypoxylun. 

 6 Ascus of same. ? Mycelium of Eurotium bearing a conidial liyplia (to right, above), a comniuncing fruit (to left), and 

 a ripe ascus-fruit (to right, below). 8 a eonidiura of the same being alistricted. s Entangled hyplia; from wliich a fruit 

 arises ; the spiral central hypha has been interpreted as a female organ, the tubes growing up the side as male. J" A 

 young fruit of the same in section ; the asci arise later from the large coiled central hypha. i' A single ascus ot Eurotium. 

 inat. size; 2,3^5x50-90. ■'.«xSOO; 'xlüO: 8-iix250. 



