THALLOPHYTA, 



Fig. 385. — Ascomycetes, 



I Cordyceps Taylori, a pyrenomycetous Fungus 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 

 in section. * Xwo asci containing filamentous spores, s Vertical section of a perithecium of Xylaria Sypoxylon. 

 6 Ascua of same. 7 Mycelium of Eurotium bearing a conidial hypha (to right, above), a commencing fruit (to left), and 

 a ripe ascus-fruit (to right, below), a A conidium of the same being abstricted. ^ Entangled hyphse from which a fruit 

 arises; the spiral central hypha has been interpreted as a female organ, the tubes growing up the side as male. *o A 

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

 inat.size; 2.3^5x50-90. *,6x500; 7x190: 8-iix250. 



