36 FUNGI. 
One great point of distinction between these and the preceding 
is the absence of any true perithecium, the spores being pro- 
duced in a kind of spurious receptacle, or from a sort of stroma. 
The spores are, as a rule, larger and much more attractive than 
in Spheronemei, and, in seme instances, are either very fine, or 
very curious. Under this head we may mention the multi- 
septate spores of Ooryneum; the tri-radiate spores of <Astero- 
sporium; the curious crested spores of 
>» Pestalozzia; the doubly crested spores of 
Dilophospora; and the scarcely less sin- 
gular gelatinous coated spores of Cheiro- 
spora. In all cases the fructification is 
abundant, and the spores freyuently ooze 
out in tendrils, or form a black mass 
above the spurious receptacle from which 
they issue.* 
Ric Died teramnontiny Hay Toruacet.—In this order there seems 
at first to be a considerable resemblance 
to the Dematiei, except that the threads are almost obsolete, and 
the plant is reduced to chains of spores, without trace of perithe- 
cium, investing cuticle, or definite stroma. Sometimes the spores 
are simple, in other cases septate, and in Sporochisma are at first 
produced in an investing cell. In most cases simple threads 
at length become septate, and are ultimately differentiated into 
spores, which separate at the joints when fully mature. 
Czomace1—Of far greater interest are the Coniomycetous 
parasites on living plants. The present order includes those in 
which the spore T is reduced to a single cell; and here we may 
observe that, although many of them are now proved to be 
imperfect in themselves, and only forms or conditions of other 
fungals, we shall write of them here without regard to their 
duality. These originate, for the most part, within the tissues 
of living plants, and are developed outwards in pustules, which 
burst through the cuticle. The mycelium penetrates the inter- 
* Berkeley, M. J., ‘‘Introduction, Crypt. Bot.” p. 329. 
+ In the Ceomacet and Pucciniez the term ‘‘ pseudospore ’ would be much 
more accurate. 
