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Fig. 385. — Ascomycetes. 



I CDrftyceps Taylori, a pyrenomycetous Furgu which attacks caterpillars; the branched antler-like stroma has developed 

 from the sclerotium, and its lower warted portion bears the perithecia. ^ Three perithecia; enlarged. ' A perithecium 

 in section. » Two asci containing filamentous spores. = Vertical section of a perithecium of Xiilaria Htjpoxylon. 

 s Ascus of same. » Mycelium of Eurotiun bearing a conidial hypha (to right, above), a commencing fruit (to left), and 

 a ripe ascus-fruit (to right, below). » A conidium of the same being abstricted. ' Entangled hypha; from which a fruit 

 arises; the spiral central hypha has been interpreted as a female organ, the tubes growing up the side as male. ii> A 

 young fruit of the same in section ; the asci arise later from the large coiled central hypha " A single ascus of Eurotium. 

 inat,size; 2,8,6x60-90. 4,6x600; 'xl90: 8-iix250. 



