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OHIO BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. 
Note: Where no magnifications are given an enlargement of 79 diameters for perithecia, and 450 diame¬ 
ters for hairs, paraphyses, asci, and spores is to be understood. The illustrations were drawn from a 
magnification double that given here and reduced one-half in the process of reproduction. 
1-3. Fimetaria fimicola. 1. Perithecium with spores escaping. 2. Young ascus. 
3. Mature ascus. 
4-8. Pleurage taenioides. 4. Perithecium. 5. An old spore. 6. Mature spore 
X 79. 7. Same X 450. 8. Mature spore showing folds in the primary 
appendage. 
