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Torula fructiKena; grtiyi eh -white, nearly round, egg-ehaped 

 united in chains. 



Habitat: in various fruits of the domestic plum when decaying, peach, 

 in autumn especially frequent in decaying pears, producing nearly 

 round thick knobs. 



Observation. There are chains in this new kind and they are not 

 collected into crowded heads in like manner to the Moniliae. and not 

 like finger-like forms inposed on a trunk, as take* place in the 

 Aspergillus form, and they art articulated: the articulations separate 

 and are smooth and very simple, which are not observed in Dematium. 



His color term cinero-albida seems to refer to the color of the 

 spores under the microscope, and not to the color of the fungus on 

 the fruit as seen by the unaided eye. "Nearly round thick knobs" is 

 his most definite morphological description. When he says, "There 

 are chains in this new kind and they are not collected into crowded 

 heads, e/r,." he seems to be referring again to the appearance of the 

 fungus under the microscope. His description of his group Monilia 

 is not very enlightening. 



Monilia. Erecta, fills moniliformibus capitulua constituentibus. 



His description of Torula is just as vague. 



Torula. Acaulis, fila moniliformia intricata, indeterminata effusa, 



Per so on changed the name of this fungus from Torula to Monilia 

 and Monilia it remained for 100 years, or until the Monilia form was 

 found to be an imperfect stage of a Sclerotinia. 



