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Engler & Prantl also show the sporophores with the spore- 
bearing- surface upward and inward. 
In the early part of this note I said that I believed I would 
be justified in making- a new species on account of the dif- 
ferences I found between my specimens and those in Saccardo 
and Engler & Prantl. I found: that the plant grew very 
freely with Penicillium as a host; that the spores are never 
borne in chains but always singly; that instead of being 
borne in two rows along the face of the sporophore, they are 
arranged all over its surface. In other respects my specimens 
agree with the descriptions noted. 
The second species that we consider is one of the Genus 
Epicoccum, which belongs to the Tuberculariae, another 
group of the Hyphomycetes, so called because the mycelium 
forms a tubercle or mass of threads from which the spores 
arise. 
The spores are borne in masses almost without sporophores, 
but what there is of them is light brown, although the greater 
part of the Mycelium is white. The spores are black when 
mature but brownish black in the younger stages. They are 
rough on the surface and look very much as if they were 
four-celled, but I have not been able to see any definite par- 
titions. They are globose and measure from twenty to 
thirty /x in diameter. 
In germination the spores send out short, almost globose 
cells, and after forming two or three of these at each point of 
germination, they grow into the regular septate hyphae, 
which continue to lengthen for some time. 
Near the growing tip of the mycelium short branches arise, 
at first just a single filament, but very soon becoming much 
and irregularly branched, forming a hemispherical mass 
(sporodochium) upon the surface of which the spores are 
borne. 
As an experiment this fungus was grown upon several dif- 
ferent kinds of media to see if different nutrients had differ- 
ent effects upon it. 
