PLATE 1. CUBONIA BULBIFERA. FIGURES 1-6. Different forms of the primordium of the apothecium. FIGURES 7, 8. FIGURE 9. Section of the mature apothecium. FIGURE 10. Asci and paraphyses. FIGURES 11-16. Stages in the development of the bulbil. FIGURE 17. FIGURE 18. FIGURE 19. Mature bulbil. Contortions of the hyphae. Portion of a crushed bulbil with the contents of the cells escaping. FIGURE 21. The endosporium broken off. FIGURES 26, 27. Sprouting vegetative cells from the inner portion of the apothecium. FIGURE 28. Germinating bulbil producing spiral primordia directly. PLATE 2. MELANOSPORA PAPILLATA. FIGURES 1-6. Stages in the development of the bulbil. FIGURE 7. A group of Chlamydospore-like intercalary cells. FIGURES 8-10. Stages in the development of the perithecium. FIGURE 11. Outline of a mature perithecium showing the relative size of the bulbils. FIGURE 12. A group of asci crushed from a young perithecium. FIGURES 13-20. FIGURES 21, 22. Germinating ascospores. Forms produced in Van Tiegham cell cultures. FIGURE 23. Conidia on flask-shaped sterigmata produced on a hypha. Stages in the development of a terminal bulbil. intercalary bulbil with three large central cells. FIGURES 24, 25. FIGURES 27-30. MELANOSPORA ANOMALA. Stages in the development of the bulbil. |