Bui. 1053, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Plate III. 
Basidiospore Studies of Lenzites sepiaria. 
(X 475, except la, which is X 67.) 
Fig. 1.— Germinating basidiospores on malt agar. Fig. la. — Extent of the growth which may 
take place before branching begins. Fig. 2. — Germinating basidiospores in distilled water. 
Fig. 3.— Oidia upon submerged mycelium in agar. Fig. 4.— Septate oidium. Figs. 5, 6, and 
7. — Aerial mycelium almost completely broken up to oidal chains. Fig. 8.— Coil in aerial 
mycelium of older cultures. Fig. 9. — Germinating oidia. Fig. 10.— Successive stages in 
formation of oidia and one chlamydospore in submerged mycelium in agar, with germination 
of the chlamydospore. Fig. 11. — Stages in the germination of a single oidium. Fig. 32.— 
Stages in the formation of chlamydospores in submerged mycelium. Fig. 13.— Chlamydispores 
or chlamydosporelike bodies. 
