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setting up the cultures and the close similarity of the hyphe in the 
two cases leave little doubt in my mind that the two conidial forms 
e 
in this drop of water, and set free as a round ball of spores still 
be mistaken for sporangia which were formed at the end of the 
Coemansiella alabastrina. — Fig. 1. Conidia; Bs resting, (b) germinating. 
2-6. Development of conidiophore. 7, 17, 18. Mature conidiophore ; lateral 
view. 8. Arrangement of conidia on conidiophore. 9. Rays of mature conidio- 
phore viewed from above; spores have been liberated; note sterigmata. _ 10. 
Conidiophore with only three rays. 11. Pitted septum in pedicel of conidio- 
phore. 12. Branched conidiophore. 13. Chlamydospores. 14. Hyphal conidia. 
bo eat of hyphal conidia. 16. Hyphal conidia more highly magnified 
an in fig, 14, 
