In Dendryphium, the threads and spores are very similar, except that the threads are branched at their apex, and the spores are often produced one at the end of another in a short chain.
Porter Smith writes of its employment medicinally by the Chinese, but from his own specimens it is clearly a species of Polysaccum, which he has mistaken for Lycoperdon.
Its mycelium represents at first strong branched utricles without partitions; the branches are of the higher order, mostly divided into rich and very fine-pointed ramuli.
Seynes has given the details of his examination of the sporidia of Morchella esculenta during germination.
In Tympanis, asci of two kinds have been observed in some species; one kind containing an indefinite number of very minute bodies resembling spermatia, and the other octosporous, containing sporidia of the usual type.
Coloured sporidia of this kind are common in Xylaria and Hypoxylon, as well as in certain species of the section Superficiales.
And here again it becomes necessary to remind the reader that all subterranean fungi are not included in this order, inasmuch as some, of which the truffle is an example, are sporidiiferous, developing their sporidia in asci.
The sporidia of the Discomycetes, and some of the Sphæriacei, germinate readily in a drop of water on a slip of glass, although not proceeding further than the protrusion of germ-tubes.
E] Hyaline sporidia occasionally exhibit a delicate bristle-like appendage at each extremity, as in the Valsa thelebola, or with two additional cilia at the central constriction, as in Valsa taleola.
Shorter fusiform sporidia are by no means uncommon, varying in the number of septa, and in constriction at the joints in different species.
The sporidia are usually four or eight, or some multiple of that number, in each ascus, rarely four, most commonly eight.
It is to this particular consistency of the epispore that the cracks so frequent in the coloured sporidia of Ascobolus are due, through contraction of the epispore.
In some species of Hysterium, the sporidia are remarkably fine.
Coloured sporidia are often large and beautiful: they are mostly of an elongated, elliptical form, or fusiform.
When they are quite ripe, the wall of the conceptacle becomes brittle, and from irregular fissures, arising easily from contact, the colourless roundsporidia are liberated.
The asci in which thesesporidia are generated mostly partake of a broadly saccate, ovate form.
Cunningham at Calcutta, on substances floating in the atmosphere, it appeared that the sporidia of many Sphæriæ actually germinated after being taken up by the air.
This very closely resembles Hypomyces aurantius, but the sporidia are larger, rough and warted and the felt-like mycelium at the base is wanting.
The cups are small, varying much in color and the sporidia are ellipsoidal.
The stroma is vertical and fleshy, head distinct, hyaline or colored; sporidia repeatedly divided and sub-moniliform.
Sporidia oblong, elliptical, with two or three minute nuclei.
The reproductive bodies consisting ofsporidia mostly definite, contained in asci—mother cells or sacs—springing from a naked or enclosed stratum of fructifying cells and forming a hymenium or nucleus.
The sporidia are often accompanied by simple or branched threads, which are abortive asci, called paraphyses.
When the sporidia infect a plant the mycelium so produced gives origin to aecidiospores and spermatia; the aecidiospores on infection produce a mycelium which bears uredospores and later teleutospores.
In brachy and hemi the aecidiospores are absent, the mycelium from the sporidia giving origin directly to the uredospores; the former possess spermatia, in the latter they are absent.
The teleutospore puts forth on germination a four-celled structure, the promycelium or basidium, and this bears later four sporidia or basidiospores, one on each cell.
The sporidia: in B the sporidia have coalesced in pairs at v.
The teleutospore, with the sporidia which arise from it, is always present, and the division into genera is based chiefly on its characters.
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