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FUNGI. 



formis, those of Valsa profusa, and some species of Massaria, 

 the latter being at first invested with a hyaline coat. Some 

 coloured sporidia have hyaline appendages at each extremity, as 



Pia. 71. — Sporidia of Massaria fadaiis. 

 X 400. 



Fig. 72.- -Sporidium of Melanconis 

 bicornis, Cooke. 



in Melarwonis Berkeleii, and an allied species, Jifelanconis bicornis, 

 from the United States, also some dung SphcericB, as S. fimiseda, 

 included under the proposed genus Sordaria.* Hyaline sporidia 

 occasionally exhibit a delicate bristle-like appendage at each 

 extremity, as in the Valsa thelebola, or with two additional cilia 

 at the central constriction, as in Valsa taleola. A peculiar form 



ffio. 73.— Caudate sporidia of Spharia fimiseda. Fia. 74.— Sporidia of Valsa thelebola. 



of sporidium is present in certain species of Sphasria found on 

 dung, for which the generic name of Sporormia has been pro- 



* Winter, "Die Deutschen Sordarien'' (1873). 



