] 1 8 FETCH : 



64-80 X 12-14 fj., eight-spored, with spores biseriate, or 

 imiseriate below and biseriate above. The spores are oval, 

 not constricted, one-septate, hyaline, with a striate wall, ends 

 rounded, 13-18 x 6-7 ;;-. 



Nectria subquaternata B. & Br. 



This species Avai^ described by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1026, as " Subcsespitosa ; peritheciis 

 pa Hide opacis ; sj)oridiis oblongis submetulseformibus 

 uniseptatis. Often four or five together with a depression in 

 the centre ; sporidia 12 (j. long." The specimen was Thwaites 

 173 a. In Herb. Peradeniya this species is mixed with 

 Nectria byssicola and others. According to von Hohnel, 

 the Kew specimen conjiains Calonectria Meliae Zimm. { = 

 Calonecfria rigidiusmla), Nectria subquaternata, and an 

 unnamed species which he has described as Nectria 

 confusa. 



Nectria Subquaternata has perithecia, 0*25 mm. diameter, 

 subglobose, .with a minute conical ostiolum, pale flesh- 

 coloured, thickly covered with large, compact, pallid or 

 yellowish-white warts. They are usually densely crowded on 

 a fleshy stroma about 3 mm. long and broad, but sometimes 

 are scattered and superficial. The asci are narrow-clavate, 

 sessile, 50-60 x 6-10 ijl, eight-spored, with usually obliquely 

 uniseriate spores, and furnished with Hnear paraphj'ses, 

 slightly inflated at the tip. The spores are narrow-oval to 

 oblong-oval, with rounded ends, hyaline, one-septate, not 

 constricted, 10-13 X 4-5 \i. 



According to von Hohnel (Mitt. XIV., p. 34) this species is 

 identical with Nectria squamuUgera Sacc, 1875, Nectria 

 granuUgera Starb., 1892, and Nectria subsquamuligera Henn. 

 & Nym., 1899. 



As pointed out by von Hohnel {loc. cit.), Berkeley and 

 Broome's statement that the perithecia are in groups of four or 

 five, with a depression in the centre, does not refer to Nectria 

 subquaternata, but to one of the other species included with it, 

 viz., Nectria confusa v. H. 



