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Fig. 250. — Spi'ae-ro-stil'-be cin-na-ba-ri-n.\. A bark-lovinp; fungus, occuring in the 

 Scuthern States and southward. Figures made from specimens collected 

 in Jamaica, except c which was copied from Pflanzenfamilien. Draw- 

 ings by Edith Hjde. 



(jerman botany, and shows the spores of a closely related species. 



Tlis second kind of spores are borne in an enlarged elongated cell, 

 called an ascus; the spores are accordingly called ascospores. Tn this case 

 there are eight spores in each ascus and each spore consists of two paris, 

 tV.'t is, crcb is Iwo-ccllcd. 



" Spbaerostilbe cinnabarina has been rc'ixirtcd from Ceylon, Mexico, Ciib-i, 

 and the Southern United States. When it was first found in Cuba it was 

 nrn-:ed Stilbi:m ciimcbaritiiivi, l:y Montagne, a French botanist, who had 

 however only tie upright crpitate stem — at least that is the portion to 

 which the original description refers. Later when ibe bisal bulbs, bearing 

 t'.c ascospores, were found and described, the correel ])]icc for this fu.ngus 

 in clrssif'crtirn wrs recogrized; accordingly it was placed in the genus 

 Sphaero! tilbc. There was no occasion of course for chani-ing the first 

 species-n<- me ; — and therefore, the plant is called in bptarical literat-r? 

 Shiiccrostilhc cinnabari'o. The name Stilbnni eii nab.'rinnu is a syr.o:iym, 

 rr.d :lludes lo the ccnidial stage cnly. 



