26 MICROBES, FERMENTS, AND MOULDS. 
the balls in question are produced from the same 
mycelium as Aspergillus glaucus, and that conse- 
quently the chaplet of stalks and the balls filled with 
asci are merely two organs of the same fungus. 
Fig. 13,—Aspergillus glaucus, mould on leather and rotten fruits : a, hypha bearing 
the chaplet of spores 6; c,a germinating spore; a, ball of Eurotium ; e¢, ascus 
enclosing the endogenous spores (magnified). 
The chaplet of spores in Aspergillus glaucus repre- 
sent the white exogenous spores, or the sphacelium of 
the ergot of rye, and those which are subsequently 
