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ance, and will therefore be only briefly mentioned. It forms 

 white or reddish herbages, with sympodially branched conidio- 

 phores, developing long chains of ovoid conidia by abstriction. 

 The conidia are relatively large, measuring 12 by io^t. The 

 ascospores (resembling those of A. glaucus = " Eurotium") are 

 spherical and small (50-80^ in diameter), with rounded 8-spored 

 asci, the spores measuring 6 by 4 /n. It forms purple- red patches 

 on starch paste and other vegetable substrata. In any event the 

 conidium-producing form bears little resemblance to the previously 

 mentioned Aspergillacece. 



