92 FETCH : 



Hypocrea jecorina B. & Br. 



This was described by Berkeley and Broome in Fungi of 

 Ceylon, No. 989, from Thwaites 33, 1097. Thwaites 1097 was 

 part of his 33, another part being 1096, which was included 

 under Hypocrea multiformis. 



Berkeley and Broome's description is " Convexa, pulvinata, 

 jecorma, demum subplicata ; ostiolis prominulis ; carne alba. 

 On bark and wood. Sporidia 3*75-5 ^., forming a necklace." 



This species is common at Hakgala, and has been collected 

 at Peradeniya. It grows on old decaying Polypori, or more 

 generally on Pyrenomycetse, e.g., Nummularia pithodes. The 

 stromata are usually circular, regular, sometimes lobed, 

 flattened convex, often undulating, margin rounded, up to 

 1 cm. diameter, 1 • 5 mm. thick, dark red-brown, becoming livid 

 brown, with slightly projecting black ostiola, glabrous, opaque, 

 usually attached only in the centre. The surface becomes 

 wrinkled in drying. The stroma is fleshy and somewhat 

 fragile when fresh, but compact and rather corky when dry ; 

 internally it is white. The perithecial cavities are flask- 

 shaped, about 200 ^JL high, 120-150 [l diameter, crowded, with 

 a yellow-brown wall. The asci are 60-75 x 4 ^, cylindric, 

 eight-, then sixteen-spored. The part-spores are spherical, 

 greenish -hyaline, white in mass, minutely warted, 3*5-4 [x 

 diameter. 



The conidial stage of this species is a Trichoderma, green, 

 with dirty green, subglobose conidia, 2*5-3 \). diameter. 



Cesati described from Ceylon, Hypocrea gelatinosa var. 

 umbrina, and this was re-described by Cooke as Hypocrea 

 umbrina in Grevillea, XII., p. 78. The specimen from Cesati 

 in Herb. Kew is Hypocrea jecorina. 



Hypocrea catoptron B. & Br. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 990, as " Minor, meMea ; peritheciis 

 nigris, demum perlvicentibxas. Sporidia 6*25-5 |j,." 



Hypocrea catoptron is not uncommon at Peradeniya. It is 

 up to 2 mm. diameter, circular, discoid, 0*8 mm. thick, the 

 upper surface usually plane, the sides more or less vertical. 



