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v. 11967. Paratype. Section through the same stem with 

 fungus. Slide 1 Bl in Stopes Coll. 

 Upper Cretaceous ; Hokkaido, Japan. 



Presented by Dr. M. O. Stopes, 1910. 



v. 11969. Paratype ; section through the same stem showing 

 the fungus very widely spread through the tissues. 

 The distribution of the fungus in the periderm layers 

 of the host is illustrated well in this section, a small 

 portion of which is drawn in. Plate II to show both 

 the hyphee and a few of the irregular thickened 

 fungal cells. Slide 1 B4 in Stopes Coll. 

 Upper Cretaceous ; Hokkaido, Japan. 



Presented by Dr. M. 0. Stopes, 1910. 



V. 11970. Paratype; next section to V. 11969. This shows 

 similar hyphal developments to those in V. 11969, 

 and also has in the periderm layers a number of par- 

 ticularly well ])rcscrved nests of thickened cells (cf. 

 text-fig. 22). Several of these are seen quite at the 

 edge of the host-tissues, though the majority of them 

 are more deeply seated. Slide 1 B5 in Stopes Coll. 

 Upper Cretaceous ; Hokkaido, Japan. 



Presented hy Dr. M. O. Stopes, 1910. 



V. 11971. Paratype. Slide 1 BIO in Stopes Coll. 

 Upper Cretaceous ; Hokkaido, Japan. 



Presented by Dr. M. G. Stopes, 1910. 



Doubtful members of the Pyrenomycetes : — 



Genus SPHJERITES, Meschinelli. 



[In Saccardo, Sylloge Fungorum, x, p. 7o3.] 



Presumably with the characters of the living Sphceria, but 

 incompletely known. 



Sphserites cretaceus (Heer), Meschinelli. 



1883. Spktsria cretacea, Heer, Flora foss. Gronlands, p. 1, pi, Ix, 



figs. 2, 2 6. 

 1892. SpJuerites cretaceus, Meschinelli, Syll. Fung, foss., p. 753. 



