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TEXT-BOOK OF FUNGI 



Many species are destructive parasites, more especially 

 those included in the genera Gloeosporium^ Colletotrichum^ 

 Pestalozzia, and Melanconium. 





FIG. 130. Pestalozzia guepini, a parasite on leaves of 

 the tea plant, Camellia, etc. i, blotches formed by the 

 fungus on a tea leaf; 2, conidia of the fungus : these are 

 produced on simple or branched conidiophores, and have 

 three or four very delicate hyaline cilia at the apex. Fig. 

 i, slightly reduced; fig. 2, highly mag. 



HYPHOMYCETES 



Saprophytes or parasites, superficial or nearly so on the 

 matrix, sometimes internal parasites in the bodies of insects 

 and other animals ; hyphae transversely septate, usually 

 copious; conidiophores bearing naked conidia (angio- 

 carpous). 



