BREAD on BARBERRIES 



The black spores stay quiet and unchano:ed all through the fall and 

 •winter in the i)ustules on the di y stems of wheat and otlicr jriasses. 

 They soiiietinies are railed n'stinof spoi-es hecauso of this hal)it. 



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Kir;. .'1. — A piece of wlu-iit sleiii with p-d niMt luistuU-H. Tin- l(»\ver rlrrli' ^llll\vH 

 pnrfH of two pusdilos cnlar»fpc!. In I hi' iipp<T oinlo a fi'w of thi* red or HuiiimiT 

 spons wliiili till tlu-fio pviHluloH lire Kri'atly iiiiijnil"''<l 



Tn the sprin<;, \vlion <he soakiiiL'" ruins coino, (lie hliidc spores swrll. 

 Kac'h cell of a hlaclv spmc tlicu pii-hcs out a slender white thread 

 or hypha. Each liyplia hears only four spores. (Fij^. 1.) 'I'lu-se are 

 so few and so tiny and colorless that they are not seen hy the naked 



