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mass of mycelium which arises beneath the epidermis. It is 

 broadly elliptical, with a rather thick wall and no indication of a 

 beak (Fig. 1 12, <r). The conidiophores are short and simple, hear 

 in-- spores ovate or elliptical -measuring ordinarily S-io X 7~ 

 S/i. In moist weather the spores are pushed out in vermiform 



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masses and upon dissemination they are capable of immediate 

 germination. Accompanying these pycnidia (the spores of which 

 are frequently known as stylospores) there may be found some- 

 what smaller, more nearly spherical pycnidia (commonly I nit un- 

 fortunately known as spermagonia). The latter contain relatively 

 long filiform conidiophores converging towards the center, and 



