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the balls in question are produced from the same 

 mycelium as Aspergillus glaucus, and that conse- 

 quently the chaplet of stalks and the balls filled with 

 asci are merely two organs of the same fungus. 



Fig. 13. Aspergillus glaucus, mould on leather and rotten fruits : a, hypha bearing 

 the chaplet of spores b ; c, a germinating spore ; d, ball of Eurotium ; e, ascus 

 enclosing the endogenous spores (magnified). 



The chaplet of spores in Aspergillus glaucus repre- 

 sent the white exogenous spores, or the sphacelium of 

 the ergot of rye, and those which are subsequently 



