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one-septate. The spores are elliptic to subfusoid, not, or 

 slightly, constricted, hyaline, then brown, strongly verrucose, 

 the warts sometimes arranged in longitudinal rows, 8-13 x 

 4-6 [L, exceptionally 14 X 7 [>.. The asci are clavate, sessile, 

 eight-spored, spores obliquely uniseriate, 70 X 6-8 [>.. 



Cooke (Grevillea, XII., p. 110) transferred this species to 

 Cosmospora, as a subgenus of Dialonedria. 



Nectria suffulta B. & C. 



This species was originally described by Berkeley from 

 Cuba in Jour. Linn. Soc, X., p. 378. Subsequently it was 

 recorded for Ceylon in Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1020, from 

 Thwaites 1106, 1107. Von Hohnel, who has examined a Kew 

 specimen, states, in Mitt., XIV., p. 36, that the specimen from 

 Ceylon is quite different from that from Cuba. In an earlier 

 publication, von Hohnel and Weese (Ann. Myc, VIII., p. 466) 

 stated that Nectria leucotricha Penz. and Sacc. is identical with 

 Nectria suf[ulta B. & Br., 1873 ; but the latter is probably an 

 error for B. & C. 



In Herb. Peradeniya Thwaites 1107 contains two species. 

 One of these is Nectriella gigaspora Cooke and Massee, The 

 other is in bad condition, but appears to be the same as the 

 species in Thwaites 1106. Its spores are broadly oval, thick- 

 walled, 10-12 X 5-6 [I., and often almost transverse in theascus. 



Thwaites 1106 in Herb. Peradeniya contains six pieces ; 

 two of these do not now bear anything recognizable ; the 

 other four bear the species which was regarded by Berkeley 

 and Broome as Nectria suffulta. 



The perithecia are about 0-25 mm, diameter, superficial, 

 with sparse, white, radiating hyphte extending from the lower 

 part of the perithecium to the substratum. They are 

 scattered, or in small groups, or lines, of three or four, and in 

 the latter case they appear confluent. The wall is rather 

 thick, collapsing, pruinose, dark red, translucent. The basal 

 hyphse are simple, rather thick-walled, smooth, and 3-4 ^ 

 diameter. The asci are sessile, broadly clavate, about 36 X 

 9-11 \i., with obliquely miiseriate spores. The spores are oval, 

 ends obtuse, not, or slightly, constricted at the septum, rather 

 thick-walled when mature, 9-13 X 4-6 ^. 



