38 PBTCH : 



Under C. scopseforme in Herb. Kew are a Ceylon specimen 

 without date or collection number ; another, Thwaites 424 ; 

 and a third, Thwaites 485. Most of these unniimbered 

 CejT^Ion specimens were sent by Thwaites in 1854, so that it is 

 probable that Berkeley had the undated Ceylon specimen of 

 C. scopseforme at the time he published the description of that 

 species. 



The Ceylon specimens of C. scopseforme and C. congestum 

 are identical. I regret that, being under the erroneous 

 impression that the Ceylon specimen was the type, I did not 

 examine the Indian specimen of G. scopseforme on MjTistica, 

 but if Berkeley's description is correct, that species cannot be 

 the same as C. congestum, for the latter is not erumpent, and 

 its conidiophores are not nodulose. It is possible, however, 

 that Berkeley's " nodosis " means geniculate. 



In Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1177, Berkeley and Broome 

 enumerated Meliola zigzag B. & C, citing Thwaites's numbers 

 424 and 485. These, it will be noted, are the numbers now 

 included in Herb. Kew under C. scopseforme. In the cover of 

 Meliola zigzag in Herb. Kew there is part of Thwaites 424 only. 



Meliola zigzag, or, as the name was published, Meliola 

 zigzac, was described by Berkeley in " Cuban Fungi," No. 882 

 (Jour. Linn. Soc, X. (1869), p. 392), as " Floccis repentibus 

 confervoideis, articulis utrinque cmarguiatis obUquis ; peri- 

 theciis setis acutis tenuibus curvulis cinctis ; sporidiis magnis, 

 conidiis helminthosporoideis triseptatis utrinque appendi- 

 culatis. Sporidia 0*002 inch long; conidia 0-0016. The 

 fiocci are very peculiar." 



Meliola zigzag was re -described by Gaillard (Le Genre 

 Meliola, p. 81) from part of the type specimen, Cuba 882, He 

 described the mycelium as possessing hyphopodia and setae, 

 and gave the dimensions of the perithecia and spores. After 

 the description, Gaillard added the following observation : 

 " Nous avons fait cette description d'apres un specimen des 

 Fungi Cubenses, n. 882 ; I'appareil conidifere etait impar- 

 faitement developpe, et se redusait au mycehum. Berkeley 

 indique dans sa description ; Conidiis helminthosporoideis, 

 40 jjL long., triseptatis, utrinque appendiculatis. Les 'floccis 

 repentibus confervoideis, articulis utrinque emarginatis 



