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form of erect, club-shaped bodies of a dingy brown or 

 sometimes bright red colour. Cordyctps militaris, having 



FIG. 140. Fusarinin ly coper sici. This fungus has two 

 distinct conidial stages : no higher form of fruit is as 

 yet known, i, Diplocadium stage : the erect conidio- 

 phores bear two or three whorls of branchlets, each 

 bearing a conidium at its tip; 2, Fusarium stage: the 

 conidiophores are short, and bear a few short branchlets 

 near the apex, each of which bears a hyaline, septate, 

 sickle-shaped conidium ; 3, chlamydospores which be- 

 come thick-walled and act as resting-s pores : these are 

 produced interstitially or terminal on the mycelium of 

 the Fusarinm stage, permeating the matrix. All figs, 

 highly mag. 



a bright orange-red club, is not uncommon on the larvae 

 of insects in this country. 



