664: THE FUNGI WHICH CAUSE PLANT DISEASE 



terior softer, of fertile and sterile fasciculate hyphse; fertile hyphse 

 with short branches bearing the spore-mother-cells which divide 

 into two globose or angular spores; germination by a filiform 

 conidia-bearing mycelium. 



A genus of seven species, chiefly on palms. 



G. phoenicis (Moug.) Poit.^i*- «» 



Sprodochiiun 1-1.5 x 500 fi; exoperidium homy, black, inner 

 peridium membranous, hyaline; spore-mass yellow; spores globose 

 or elliptic, 3-6 ii, with a thick, smooth, hyaline wall. 



On the date and other palms throughout the world. 



