PLATE 5. 



Perisporieae. 



Fig. 1. Enlarged perithecium of Meliola bidentata, Cke. 



" 2. An ascus. 



" 3. A sporidium. 



" 4. A branch of mycelium with hyphopodia. 



" 5. Tips of three appendages magnified. 



" 6. Meliola palmicola, Winter, four magnified appendage-tips. 



" 7. Meliola furcata, Lev. three appendage-tips, from specimens 

 collected in Nicaragua by Wright. 



11 8. Meliola bicomis, three appendage-tips, copied from Rabh- 



Winter's Fungi Eur. No. 3547. 

 N. B. In this plate and all succeeding plates, where not other- 

 wise noted, all asci are drawn to a scale of 28// to the inch and 

 all enlarged sporidia to a scale of 14 fi to the inch. 



