INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY. 



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belong to teniiDerate climes. Few, however, are known except 

 those which belong to Europe, North Africa, and the United 

 States. A curious Epicoccum occurs in New Zealand. 



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Fig. 70. 



a. Chondromyces crocatus, Berk, and Curt., with its spores. Both 

 magnified. From specimens on a decayed gourd from South Caro- 

 lina. 



b. Stigmatella aurantiaca^ Berk, and Curt. From specimens on 

 Spharia Hibisci, South Carolina. Magnified. 



c. Cheiromyce.1 stellatus, Berk, and Curt. 



d. Spores of ditto. Both magnified. From specimens on Scirpus 

 eriophorus, sent from Pennsylvania by t)r. Michener. 



334, The species of this tribe are mostly of little importance; 

 but one of them, Fusarlum Mori,* is the pest of silk gardens, 

 destroying the leaves, and thus reducing materially the quan- 

 tity of food. This genus is, indeed, referred by Montague to 

 Fusisjjoriuin ; but it seems to me essentially innato-ennnpent, 

 and to belong to a higher group than Fusisporium, which is 

 one of the Mucedincs, approximating closely in its diffluent 

 spores to Stilhacei. Fusarium lateritium is destructive to 

 the young twigs of many trees, but perhaps does not attack 

 tliem till previously diseased. 



* This is Septoria Mori of L6veill6, from whom I have specimens. 

 Accounts will be found in Atti del Cong. Sc. di Milano, and by Turpiu 

 in Ann. de la Soc. d'Hortic, Paris, vol. 20, ]>. 329, and vol 22. For 

 these references T am indebted to Dr. Montague. 



