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1-6-chambered, black, 300-500 w in diameter, at length erum- 
pent at the summit; spores sausage-shaped, hyaline, at first 
unicellular, at length 1-2-septate, 15 x 4°54; when mature the 
sporophore breaks away, remaining attached to the spore, and 
looking like a spine or cilium; sporophores simple, slender, 
straight, and pointed, about 14 times the length of the spore. 
a. Sporophores x 800. 6. Spore with attached sporophores x 800. 
The method of growth of the spores is unusual. They are at 
first oval, and form a continuation of the axis of the sporophore, 
then they become cylindrical and curved, and bend over so as 
to become obliquely attached to the sporophore*. 
Spores which bear a great resemblance to these occur in 
Pestalozzina Rollandi, growing on pine leaves, a species which 
was recorded by Fautrey}. The spine-like structure attached 
to these spores, Fautrey considered a true cilium, and conse- 
quently placed his species in the genus Pestalozzina, a genus 
with ciliate spores. The attached sporophore of Cytotriplospora 
Pint is very much like a cilium and, as Fautrey does not figure 
the method of growth of the sporophores of Pestalozzina 
Rollandt, it is probable that his so-called “‘spine” was a sporo- 
phore. In this case Pestalozzina Rollandi would be a form of 
this fungus (Cytotriplospora Pint) growing on leaves, differing 
somewhat from the form it assumes on the stem, and should be 
considered as merely a leaf-form of Cytotriplospora Pint. Such 
a state of things is not unusual in the Sphaeropsideae, for there 
are several species of these fungi which may occur on the stems 
and leaves of the same plant; when on the stems they have 
pycnidia, but are without them on the leaves; for instance 
* (Mr F. A. Mason has forwarded to me a scale of Picea excelsa collected at 
Reeth, Yorkshire, May 1920, with Cytotriplospova Pini on it—identified by 
Mr W. B. Grove. J.R.] 
ft See Rabenh. Krypt.° Fl. vol. vir, p. 630. 
