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Fig. 12, Balansia discoidea P. Hennings, on stem of Andro- 
pogon, Kansas, marked “Dothidea vorax B. & C.” in Ellis Her¬ 
barium now in Herbarium New York Botanical Garden. Show¬ 
ing section of a stroma or fruit body and a portion of stem with 
enveloping sterile stroma or pseudosclerotium. Photomicrograph 
with ocular 6 and objective 16 mm., the plate holder being 360 
mm. from the object. 
Plate 85. Dothichloe atramentosa (B. & C.) Atkinson, part 
of type of Hypocrea atramentosa B. & C., in Royal Herbarium 
at Kew “No. 4018 on Andropogon, Alabama, Beaumont.” 
Fig. 13, section through the general stroma and leaf show¬ 
ing perithecia. 
Fig. 14, perithecium of same, more highly magnified show¬ 
ing wall, ostiolum and asci with spores. 
Fig. 13, photomicrograph with ocular 6 and objective 
16 mm., the plate holder being 360 mm. from the object. 
Fig. 14, photomicrograph with ocular 6 and objective 3 mm., 
the plate holder being 360 mm. from the object. 
Plate 86. Balansia hypoxylon ( Pk.) Atkinson. Ephelis 
stage, Ephelis borealis E. & E. 
Fig. 15, free hand section through peziza-like fruit body 
and portion of pseudosclerotium. 
Fig. 16, angle in cup of same more highly magnified show¬ 
ing the very slender spores. 
Fig. 15, photomicrograph with ocular 6, objective 16 mm., 
the plate holder being 360 mm. from the object. 
Fig. 16, photomicrograph with ocular 6, objective 3 mm., 
the plate holder being 360 mm. from the object. 
Plate 87. Figs. 17 & 18. Balansia hypoxylon (Pk.) Atkin¬ 
son. 
Fig. 17, photograph of Danthonia spicata showing pseudo¬ 
sclerotium with the rounded stromata at a, real size. Note much 
smaller size of the pseudosclerotium and much larger size of 
the stromata than in B. vorax fig. 19. 
Fig. 18, the Ephelis stage (Ephelis borealis E. & E.) en¬ 
larged about six times the real length, showing pseudosclerotium 
with peziza-like fruit bodies, from free hand sketch. 
Figs. 19 and 20, Balansia vorax (B. & C.) Atkinson. 
Fig. 19, photograph, real size, of type specimen from Khasia, 
India, now in Royal Herbarium at Kew, England, the large 
pseudosclerotium in inflorescence at a. 
Fig. 20, small portion of the pseudosclerotium with stro¬ 
mata magnified about ten times the real length and width, from 
free hand sketch. 
Fig. 21, Balansia claviceps Speg., photograph real size, of 
portion of specimen from Royal Herbarium, Kew, on stem of 
Panicum, Paraguay. Note that many of the stromata are sessile. 
