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Fig. 385. — Ascomycetes. 



• CorSyeepB Taylori, a pyrenomycetous Fargu which attacks caterpillars ; the branched antler-like stroma has developed 

 from the sclerotium, and its lower warted portion bears the perithecia. ^ Three perithecia ; enlarged. 3 A perithecium 

 m section. * Two asci containing filamentous spores. * Vertical section of a perithecium of Xylaria Hypoxylon. 

 * AscuB of same. 7 Mycelium of Eurotium bearing a conidlal hypha (to right, above), a commencing fruit (to left), and 

 a ripe ascus-fruit (to right, below), s x conldium of the same being abstricted. » Entangled hyphae from which a fruit 

 arises; the spiral central hypha has been interpreted as a fem^e ot^an, the tubes growing up the side as male, lo A 

 young fruit of the same in section ; the asci arise later from the large coiled central hypha. i> A single ascus of Eurotium. 

 1 Hat size ; s, 8^5x50-90. * 6x500; 7x190: &-"x250. 



