ox FUXGI PARASITIC ON SCALE-IXSECTS FOUXP IX FORMOSA. 79 



The .stroma is ^renorally dark or black colored on the .surface, but this 

 colored portion can easily be wiped off A\ith a wet doth, ("XiM)sin.r a iroiooth 

 amber c-olored ^urihce. fn all our specimens, the fnnirus is always accompanied 

 by a sooty mold, which covers the surface of both leaves and stenis to a 

 greater or less extent. Tlie blackened color of the stroma, in the pre>ent 



of its rind cell... Elli.- and Everhart (9j --un to have noticed thi. 

 [)artieular character, when they described the color of the stroma as somewhat 

 black (or yellow in a livinj,^ state?) 



strt:)mata formed on Parlutoria zizypM infesting Pddium Guynm, the margi- 

 natc ones are les.s than the immaginate, while on those on Citrus, the case 

 is just the opposite, the marginate ones being predominent. The marginate 



mostly depresK'dly subsplierical (PI. Hg. 8-11). 



The conidioi)hores are so densely pa(;ked together that their ukkIc of 

 branching i. not raMiy obMT\abIe in cncu a Miy thin Miction; but it become^- 

 .•vi.lrnt. ul.en M,rh ..-tiou ilattmrd out by a i>re~Hire given under a 



of the br:,n.-l,.^ ^■Al^\u^^ fn.m :\ to o. The branches an- n^Litivcly >hort 

 and of alx.ut the same Icngtli. They are fim-ly subulate, and 10-16/;! in 

 length (PI. VI. lig. 14). 



