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berances (the sterigmata, A, c, st, Pig. 101), each of which 

 produces a chain of conidia. 



323. The sexual organs appear a little later than the 

 conidia. The end of a branch of the plant becomes coiled 

 into a hollow spiral {A, as, Fig. 101), which constitutes 



Fig. 101.— Eurotium. A, a portion of the plant, with erect hypha, c, 

 hearing at its top a radiating cluater of sterigmata, St, from which the 

 conidia have fallen ; as, young carpogone— helow it a younger hranoh Is 

 beginning to coil spirally to form another carpogone. .B, the carpogone, 

 OS, and the antherid, p. 0, the same beginning to be aurrounded by the 

 enveloping branches which grow out from its base. D, spore-fruit. 

 Highly magnified. 



the carpogone. Prom below the spiral an antherid grows 

 upward, and brings its apex into contact with the upper 

 pells of the carpogone {B, Pig. 101). 



