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Hyphae pallid or brownish, densely coherent or fascicu- 

 late into a stem-like, erect structure. Stilbeae. 



FIG. 131. Cladosporiiimfulvum, a very destructive disease 

 attacking the cultivated tomato. i, under surface of a 

 tomato leaf showing the reddish-brown patches formed by the 

 crowded conidiophores ; 2, a tuft of conidiophores bearing 

 conidia. Fig. i, about nat. size ; fig. 2, highly mag. 



Hyphae pallid or brownish, densely conglutinated into a 

 wart-like mass (sporodochium), often springing from a 

 compact stroma. Tuberculariae. 



Mucedineae 



In this family the conidiophores, although very often 

 numerous and crowded in growth to form broadly expanded 



