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with a broadly conical ostiolum, which is often darker 

 than the rest of the perithecium, with a minute ochraceous 

 apex ; they are • 15-0 • 25 mm. in diameter, and slightly 

 more in height. The wall of the perithecium in section is 

 yellow internally and red towards the exterior ; it is composed 

 of thick-walled cells, about 8 [>. broad, the outer layer being 

 somewhat amorphous. The asci are narrow-clavate, sessile, 

 with obliquely uniseriate spores, 50-65 X 6-9 \j. ; sometimes 

 the spores are almost transverse, and the asci 11 [j. broad. 

 Linear paraphyses are present. The spores are oval, obtuse, 

 hyaline, not constricted at the septum, 10-13 X 4-7 [l. 

 ' The above species appears to me to correspond best with 

 Berkeley and Broome's description. It is csespitose, with a 

 stroma, which, though not white, is paler than the perithecia, 

 and perithecia, which are for the most part collapsed. It is 

 parasitic on Sphseriacese. 



Nectrla villigera B. & Br. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1012, from Thwaites 156. Their descrip- 

 tion is " Conglomerata : peritheciis ovatis rugosis pallidis ; 

 floccis conidiiferis conidiis longiseptatis magnis ellipticis vel 

 obovatis. Apparentlyon some decaying fungus. Surface of 

 perithecia rough." 



No specimen of this has been found in the Kew, British 

 Museum, or Peradeniya Herbaria, and the description is too 

 brief to be of any service. > 



Nectria volutella B. & Br. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1013, Thwaites's numbers 445 and 448 

 being cited. The description is " Carneo-pallida, ostiolo 

 obscuriore, setis pallidis ornata ; sporidiis fusiformibus, uno 

 latere ventricosis, biseptatis. On leaves of Atalantia mono- 

 phylla on a lichenoid hispid white crust. Looks at first sight 

 just like a Volutella : sporidia 37 '5 ^ long." 



Thwaites 445 and 448 are two entirely different things. 

 445 bears brown circular patches, which become gray in the 



