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Nidula. 



Nidula emodensis (Berk.) Lloj^d. Recorded for Ceylon by 

 Berkeley and Broome in Fungi of Ceylon, No. 728, as 

 Cyathus emodensis Berk., from Thwaites 1223, collected 

 on Horton Plains. It was collected again (No. 2147) in 

 October, 1906, at Pattipola. The two localities are within 

 four miles of one another. 



The peridia are urceolate, white, 6 mm. high, 5 mm. 

 diameter below, expanding near the mouth to 6 mm. 

 diameter, externally strigose, with long rigid hairs, which 

 are sometimes fasciculate. The peridiola are 1*5-2 mm. 

 diameter, circular, flattened, dark brown. The outer coat 

 is easily peeled off ; it consists of stout red-brown hyphse, 

 up to 14 [;. diameter, thick-walled or almost solid, branching 

 dichotomously, with short, spiny, lateral branches over- 

 running an interwoven felted layer of thinner yellow- 

 brown hyphae of the same character, bound together by a 

 gelatinous substance. When the outer coat is removed 

 the peridiole is rather pale reddish-brown. The inner 

 peridiole wall is dark red-brown, shading to hyaline 

 internally. The spores are thick-walled, greenish-hyaline, 

 oval, or generally slightly pyriform, 6-8 x 4-5 j;,, with a 

 few globose 5 ^ diameter. 



Cyathus. 



Cyathus Poeppigii Tul. No. 2143, Gangaruwa, July, 1906, 

 spores up to 40 x 25 ^. ; det. Lloyd. No. 2657, Kotagala, 

 September, 1908. No. 2134, Peradeniya, December, 1906, 

 spores 20-30 x 16-24 p.. No. 2375, Gatembe, April, 1907, 

 spores 24-32 X 16-20 j;,. 



No. 2143 was referred to C. Montagnei by Massee. 

 This species, judging from the available collections, is not 

 as common in Ceylon as the next. 

 Cyathus limbatus Tul. Thwaites's specimen. No. 185, 

 recorded by Berkeley and Broome as C. Montagnei, is this 

 species ; its spores are 16-22 x 8-10 ^. 



No. 2145, Peradeniya, June, 1905, spores 18-24 X 12- 

 16 \i : referred to C. Montagnei by Massee. No. 2476. 

 Dunsinane, August, 1907, spores 18-22x 8-9 \).. No. 3380. 



