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FUNG us- FLORA. 



Sclerotinia bulborum. Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, 

 p. 819 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 802 ; Mass., in Gard. Chron., 

 Aug. 11th, 1894, p, 1894, with fig. 



Asoophores 1-3 in number, springing from an irregular 

 eclerotium wliich is at first white, then blackish externally. 



Fig. 1, Sclerotinia hulhormn, Eehm, x 10 ; — Fig. 2, ascua and paraphysis 

 ■of same, x 400 ; — Fig. 3, section of portion of a solerotium, x 400 ; — 

 Fig. 4, Botrytis form of the fungus, x 250 ; — Fig. 5, conidia of Botrytis 

 stage, X 400. 



8-12 mm. diameter ; ascophore stipitate, at first closed, then 

 hemispherical, or sometimes more expanded, brown, glabrous, 

 3-5 /a; stem slender, almost cylindrical, smooth, brown, 

 10-15 mm. long; excipulum and hypotheoium formed of 

 elender, interwoven hyphae ; asci narrowly cylindrical. 



