52 Annual Beport of the State Botanist. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 3. 



COMATRICHA LONGA, Pech. 



Fig. 1. Piece of wood bearing a tuft of the plants. 



Fig. 2. Upper part of a columella and capillitium enlarged. 



Fig. 3. Lower part of a stem and fragment of hypothallus enlarged. 



Fig. 4. Small fragment of the columella and capillitum x 400. 



Fig. 5. Four spores x 400. 



COMATKICHA SUBC^SPITOSAj Pech 



Fig. 6. Piece of wood bearing four clusters of the plants. 



Fig. 7. A plant after its spores have fallen, enlarged. 



Fig. 8. Small fragment of the capillitium x 400. 



Fig. 9. Four spores x 400. 



Stachtboteys elongata, Peck. 



Fig. 10. Piece of branch bearing three tufts of the plants. 



Fig. 11. Fragments of hyphae, one bearing two heads of spores, enlarged. 



Fig. 12. Apex of a fertile hypha partly denuded, four sporophores with 



their spores remaining x 400. 

 Fig, 13. Four spores x 400. 



Dematium parasiticum, Peck. 



Fig. 14. Piece of wood bearing the Hydnum, a part of whose aculei are 



blackened by the parasite. 

 Fig. 15. An aculeus with eight hyphae of the parasite, enlarged. 

 Fig. 16. A hypha bearing five spores x 400. 

 Fig. 17. A chain of three spores x 400. 

 Fig. 18. Four spores x 400. 



FUSICLADIUM DESTRUENS, Peck. 



Fig. 19. Upper part of a leaf bearing three clusters of the fungus. 



Fig. 20. Five hyphae, two of them bearing spores x 400. 



Fig. 21. Six spores x 400. 



Fig. 22. A fragment of mycelium x 400. 



