104 FETCH : 



It has already been noted that Thwaites 48 also provided 

 Sphserostilbe pseudotrichia Schw., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1004, 

 while Cooke described from it Nedria fenestrata " Berk. & 

 Curt." in Grevillea, XII., p. 81. The latter species is also 

 Megalonedria pseudotrichia {cf. Ann. Perad., VI., p. 172). 



Nectria bactridioides B. & Br. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1010, from Thwaites 58. The description 

 is " Caespitosa, minutis^ima ; peritheciis ovatis in pulvinulo 

 sitis ; sporidiis metulseformibus miiseptatis. Looks like a 

 BadridiUm ; perithecia scarcely visible without a lens ; 

 sporidia 12*5 X 6"25 ^.." 



The type specimens are in tterb. Kew, and there are also 

 specimens in Herb. Peradeniya. In Herb. Peradeniya the 

 specimen is marked " 58 and 537 (666 part)," and there is also 

 another unnamed specimen marked " 666 p." No. 537 was 

 not cited by Berkeley and Broome ; it is chiefly a Hymenula, 

 with some immature stromata, which may be immature N. 

 badridioides, while the specimen " 666 p." is also Hymenula. 



The stromata are pulvinate, up to 2 mm. diameter and 

 1*5 mm. high, fleshy, reddish-orange in fresh specimens, 

 minutely rough. The perithecia are crowded, superficial, or 

 slightly immersed, flask-shaped, 0*2-0 '25 mmr high and 

 0*18 mm. diameter, smooth, subtranslucent. The asci are 

 cylindric, very shortly pedicellate, 60-70 X 8 ja, eight-spored, 

 with uniseriate spores. The spores are ellipsoid, with rounded 

 ends, not constricted, hyaline, becoming pale yellow-brown, 

 very minutely warted. In the type the spores measure 8-12 

 X 4-5 \).; in a recent gathering (No. 4352 in Herb. Peradeniya) 

 they are 11-13 X 6-7 \x. 



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Nectria stenospora B. & Br. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1011, as " Csespitosa, e matrice alba 

 oriunda ; peritheciis minutis pellucido-coccineis collapsis ; 

 sporidiis angustis imiseptatis. On soft decaying stems. 

 South of the Island, Jiriy, 1868. Sporidia 10-12 '5 ^ long, 

 2-5-3-75a wide." 



