88 The Botanical Gazette. [March 
that have been met with in the course of/a series of cultures 
of the form. When a mummied fruit is placed in the mott 
chamber, it not infrequently happens that it fails to produt: 
spore-chains, and to the unaided eye gives little evidenced 
any change. This occurs especially in late fall, som 
after the cessation of vegetative activity. But if the surlatt 
of such a fruit be examined microscopically, it will usually be 
found that the mycelium of the fungus has given rise to ir 
mense numbers of closely-set, flask-shaped sterigmata, 
minding one of those of Aspergillus. Each of these produce 
at its outer or neck end small globular spores of about 3 in d 
ameter, every one of which contains a conspicuous oil globule 
One rarely finds more than one of these attached to the 
sterigma, but their vast number and the occasional observ 
tion of several still united shows that they must be produced 
It is noticeable that the 
much condensed globular spores increase largely in volume” 
small drop of gelatine was exhausted. At the end of am” 
from the beginning of the culture, during the whole of 
the atmosphere of the moist clamber had been hardly a! 
only slightly moist, but a number of spores were foun® 
germinating upon them. That they were the Moniha ¥ 
cannot be doubted, since they agreed completely in? 
vg y. But undet 
conditions presented, of moderate moisture, lack of 
ment, and perhaps others not recognized as impor® 
