92 The Botanical Gazette. [March, | 
cellulose plugs between the spores, which by their cron 
force the spores apart and so serve to disseminate t ier 
This plug, called by Woronin the disjunctor, is not ne 
way represented in M. fructigena. Yet the whole hal va 
growth and the general mode of spore-formation is so sim 7 
in the two forms as amply to justify Woronin’s suggestion ; 
their possible near relationship. The probability of the cor 
affords ground for the belief that another species po 
it may be a Sclerotinia, also; and the combined evidence e 
the microconidial and chlamydosporic stages is very ea 
Assuming for the moment that the forms above describe . 
the fungus has received in recent years, that the develop 
of the species. One may therefore be quite justified ! 
belief that in Monilia tructigena we have the persis 
tically or entirely suppressed. 
*51 shall show in the forthcoming report of the Massachusetts 4 
Pp : possesses 
periment Station that it is probable that Sel. Libertiana 
conidial form. 
