HYPOCRE^CE^ ZEYLANTC^. 93 



but the upper edge rounded and sometimes crenate, attached 

 over the whole base. It is at first pale yellow, with pale 

 brown ostiola, subtranslucent, fleshy ; when the spores are 

 mature it becomes pale green, with dark green ostiola. The 

 perithecia are situated in a single layer, rather deeply sunk, 

 globose, 0*2 mm. diameter, or laterally oval, 0*2 x 0* 15 mm., 

 with a cylindrical neck about 0*1 mm. high. The part-spores 

 are globose, 4-6 [k diameter, or oval or subcylindric, 6-8 x 

 4-6 [I, blackish-green, strongly verrucose. The asci are 

 90-100 X 6-7 i;.. 



The specimens assigned to Hypocrea catoptron in Penzig and 

 Saccardo, Icones Fungorum Javanicorum, Tab. XXXV., 3, 

 appear to be a different species. According to the figure and 

 description they are not discoid, and the part-spores are all 

 globose. 



In some specimens from Hakgala the upper surface of the 

 stroma is strongly tuberculate. These are white, then pale 

 yellow with green ostiola, and finally olive green. The part- 

 spores are blackish-green, strongly verrucose, globose, 4-6 [Ji, 

 diameter, or oval or cuboid, 5-6 X 4 (jl. 



Hypocrea rufa Fr. 



This was recorded for Ceylon by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 991. They gave the spores as 5 ^ 

 diameter. The stromata of the Ceylon species are flattened 

 pulvinate, convex or almost plane above, up to 3 mm. diameter 

 and • 7 mm. thick, usually circular, but sometimes irregular 

 by confluence, with a rounded margin. They are attached 

 over the whole base, except for a narrow marginal zone. 

 When fresh, they are subtranslucent, honey-coloured, with. 

 darker ostiola ; when dry, they are dark red-brown, wrinkled. 

 Young specimens, when dry, show a white or yellowish, 

 tomentose marginal zone, i.e., the outer edge of the stroma, 

 not a hypothallus. The perithecia are situated in a peripheral 

 zone, 0*2 mm. deep, and are crowded, sometimes globose 0*2 

 mm. diameter, but usually vertically oval, 0'2 mm. high, 

 0*15 mm. diameter, often distorted. The wall of the peri- 

 thecium is yellow-brown. The spores are hyaline, minutely 



