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pallide fuseesceiite, llucroöü-sqiuiiiiuloso. Ascomatc ))roprio ininiino, 

 primo coniformi, claiiso; dein p.m. expanso, perforato; tandem pa- 

 lolliformi, late aperto, 0.8 mill, in diam., 0.2 mill, alto, margine 

 incnrxato. — .i.sr/,s' c*vlindi'ic'i.s, apic-e i'Otundatis, iodo hand i-aei'ules- 

 contibns, deorsnm breve stipitatis, 160 — 180x6 — 7 n, parapliysihus 

 (>l)\allatis, oc'tosporis. — Sporidii^ clliiilicis, 5 — 7x3 — 4//, in partilms 

 ascornm -/s snperioribns obliqne monostichis, levibns, liyalinis. 



I^/raphi/sifnis tiliformibns, snmmo snbclavatis, nnmerosissimis, dense 

 ('ong'estis, ascos panllo snpei-antibns, 2VA, {i crassis, jn-otoplasmate 

 (Hlnte-fnscesfente farctis. 



Ex mycelii liyphis rej)entibns hyalinis, septatis, ramosis, nnmeros- 

 simae assni'ü'nnt hyphae basidiiferae: basidiis sive conidioplions laueni- 

 tormibns ntplnrinmm conglobatis, snmmo conidia spiiaerica, liyalina, 

 (Ham. 2.5 »/, in catenas breves eoadniiala procreantibus. 



Conidia ex aëre in patellam gelat ina i)raeparata repletam delapsa, 

 mox ^erminare incipinnt. mycelinnKpie profei-nnt, cnjns hyphae, 

 (|imm phiriniis jocis arcliiis inter se coalescant, selerotiornm novornm 

 o\(>r(Ua e(binl. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Fig. L l'\Kir mature sclerotia (i — 8X3— 4 mill.), magnified. 



V'i^. 2. Two Sclerotia with a certain number of sprouts (juvenile ascomata) 



magnified. 

 Fig. 3, Microscopical representation of erect branches of the mycelium, against 



tlie to}) of whicli free calcospherites (from the gelatine) and also clusters 



of them have fastened. 

 Fig. 4. Micrcscopical representation of lying and ascending mycelium-threads, 



with the conidiophores produced by them and the apical conidia and 



chains of conidia originated therefrom. 

 Fig. 0. A Sclerotium with partly immature, partly full-grown long-stemmed 



Sclerotia, magnified. 

 Fig. 6. Section of a Sclerotium, magnified. 



Fig. 7. Microscopical picture of part of a section of a Sclerotimn. 

 Fig. 8. Nearly full-grown and full-grown ascomata, of which one cut longi- 

 tudinally, magnified. 

 Fig. 9. Microscopical representation of part of a longitudinal section of a 



mature ascoma, with spore-bearing asci and paraphyses. 

 Fig. 10. Part of Fig. 9. enlarged. 

 Fig. 11. Top of an ascus and a couple of spores, still more enlarged. 



