Fungi, Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales . 136 DISCOMYCETES [CH. often divided into chambers, all of which communicate with the apicalopening. The asci are cylindrical and contain eight uniseriate spores ( a). The simplest species in fact resemble a nearly closed Peziza ( b, c). In Stephensia and Pachyphloeus the hymenium is more elaborately con-voluted ; the asci in Pachypldoeus are stouter, and the spores irregularlybiseriate. In Balsamia (figs. 95, 96) the asci are broadly oblong or subglobose; themature ascocarp is completely closed and surrounded by a pseudoparen-chymatou


Fungi, Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales . 136 DISCOMYCETES [CH. often divided into chambers, all of which communicate with the apicalopening. The asci are cylindrical and contain eight uniseriate spores ( a). The simplest species in fact resemble a nearly closed Peziza ( b, c). In Stephensia and Pachyphloeus the hymenium is more elaborately con-voluted ; the asci in Pachypldoeus are stouter, and the spores irregularlybiseriate. In Balsamia (figs. 95, 96) the asci are broadly oblong or subglobose; themature ascocarp is completely closed and surrounded by a pseudoparen-chymatous sheath. The youngest ascocarps of B. platyspora which. Fig. 95. Balsamia zlilgaris Vitt.; after Tulasne.


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