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ASCOMYCETES. 



Its injurious effects can be minimized by removal of attacked 

 branches. 



Trichosphaeria sacchari Massee, is regarded as a dangerous wound 

 parasite of cane-su^ar in the Antilles ; it seems to obtain entrance chiefly 

 by the canals left by a caterpillar.^ 



Herpotrichia. 



The smooth dark perithecia bear long brown hairs, which 

 do not stand erect and stiff, but are more or less prostrate. 



Fig. so. — //ti-yJOtWc/ua niyra on a branch of Pinus montana. The ends of the 

 twigs, with most of the younger needles, are still green ; the others are dead and 

 felted together by hyphae into a black mass. (v. Tubeuf phot.) 



The asci contain eight spores, at first generally two-celled, later 



becoming four-celled. 



^Massee G., Annals of Botany, 18!),3, p. olii. 

 Barber, "Experimental Cultivation in St. Kitto," Leeivard Idands Gazette, 

 1894. 



