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FUNGI. 



formis, those of Valsa prof lisa, and some species of Massaria, 

 the latter being at first invested with a hyaline coat. Some 

 coloured sporidia have hyaline appendages at each extremity, as 



FIG. 71. Sporidia of Matmria f<e.lans. 

 X 400. 



FIG. 72.- -Sporidium of Melanconis 

 bicoinis, Cooke. 



in Melanconis Berkeleii, and an allied species, Melanconis licornis, 

 from the United States, also some dung Spharitf, as S. fimiseda, 

 included under the proposed genus Sordaria* Hyaline sporidia 

 occasionally exhibit a delicate bristle-like appendage at each 

 extremity, as in the Valsa thelebola, or with two additional cilia 

 at the central constriction, as in Valsa taleola. A peculiar form 



FiG. 73. Caudate sporidia of Sphceria fimiseda. FIG. 74. Sporidia of Valsa the'ebola. 



of sporidium is present in certain species of Spliccria found on 

 dung, for which the generic name of Sporormia has been pro- 



* ^YiIltcr, " Die Deutschen Sordarien" (1873). 



