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My:-nlogical Bulletin No. 49 



19i; 



Fig. 1.')4. — Hy-pom'-y-ces lac-ti-flu-o'-rum. A parasitic fungus which has at- 

 tacked a .cill-fungus, in cnnsequtnce of which the latter was aborted and unable to de- 

 velop the lamellae or gills The illustration.s 1 and 2 show such hosts. No. 3 rep 

 resents a section through the aborted nuishrnom and shows the microscopic fruiting 

 portion of the attacking Hyprmyces. Kach of the receptacles contains very many asci, 

 as they are called, that is to say, large cells in which the bilocular spores are developed: 

 tluy arc both shown at Xns. t and :'>. Illustrations 1 and 3 are shown natural size: 

 No. 3 is somewhat mniinitied: No 4 shown on a larger scale and No. f) very highh 

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