90 Lritish Uredinee and Ustilaginee. 
branches of the mycelium which are given off into tl 
air. Upon these numerous short, lateral branches are giv: 
off, which swell up at the ends and become crescent 
spores (Fig. 15). No conjugation takes place betwe« 
these bodies. The branches of the mycelium which a 
given off in the fluid do not produce spores, but gro 
outwards until at length they reach the air, when the 
produce terminal spores or they remain sterile. In tl 
latter case the hyphe are empty and septate. Brefe 
has further observed that by long-continued culture tt 
hyphe, under certain circun 
stances, become nodose, and a 
parently develop certain globo: 
bodies which closely resemble tk 
original teleutospore.* 
Entyloma—tThe germinatio 
of Entyloma, though similar t 
that of Tilletia, is far less con 
plex. 
E. microsporum—De Bary 
found that if the spores wer 
wholly immersed in water, they 
in the course of twenty-four hour. 
would give out a germ-tube fror 
Fig. 8.—Entyloma microsporum, four to ten times the length c 
a, Teleutospore germinating (the 
promycelial spores have conjugated the spore, At its rounded sum 
at their upper ends); 4, two secondary 
spores produced from the conjugated mit this promycelium gave o 
pairs of primary promycelial spores ; 
é, teleutospore of L, wie, which Six Or seven branches, each c 
ee preaveas oe rome Spores, 
our Of whic. ave conjugate elow. 1 1 . 
(eRe jug which was dilated upwards; an 
when they attained a lengt 
measuring 30 or 40u, each became cut off by a basz 
septum. They conjugate in pairs, by a transverse bridg: 
* Brefeld, doc. cét., t, xiii. figs. 46-52, 
t De Bary, Bot. Zeitung (1874), pp. 81-92, 97-108, t. ii, 
