88 QUINCE CULTURE. 
ous little elevations or pustules, which become ruptured 
as ripeness is attained, when the fungus pushes through 
the opening, at the same time bursting by radiating 
fissures, and forming a fringed edge of the cups. The 
fringed edges are often recurved, revealing the orange 
spores crowded together within. At first, and while 
contained within the peridium, they are concatinate or 
Fig. 58.—FRUIT AND STEM AS AFFECTED BY THE RAZSTILIA AURANTIACA. 
chained together; but when dispersed they are scattered 
about the orifice, and often mixed with the colorless 
cells from which they have issued. 
Aslice of the fruit cut out before the fungi are matured 
enough to burst the cells, shows the yellow color of the 
dust in its granular formation, as confined by the cellular 
substance of the cups. Each of the protospores con- 
