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that it \^as a Nectria, and had enumerated it under Bysso- 

 nectria, subgenus Hyphonectria, in Grevillea, XII., p. 109. 

 From the specimens available it is doubtful whether the 

 mycelium belongs to the Nectria. The species would appear 

 to stand best as Cosmospora. 



Nectria Dorcas (B. & Br.) Cooke. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 944, as " Peziza {Dasycyphsd) Dorcas B. 

 & Br. Sessilis, globosa, aperta, extus cervlna tomentosa ; 

 hymenio fusco ; sporidiis subellipticis, medio constrictis, 

 biseriatis uniseptatis binucleatis (No. 275). On some mono- 

 cotyledonous plant, scattered over the bark, looking at first 

 much like a villous Sphxria. Sporidia \2 6\x long." It was 

 included in Saccardo as Solenopezia. Cooke, in Grevillea, 

 XII. (1884), p. 82, re-described it as " Dialoneciria Dorcas. 

 Superficialis, sparsa, globosa, demum collapsa et cupulseformis. 

 Peritheciis extus cervino-tomentosis. Ostiolo fusco. Sporidiis 

 subellipticis, medio constrictis, biseriatis, uniseptatis, hyalinis, 

 12 X 4-5 ^." Massee, in Journal of Botany, XXXIV. 

 (1896) refers to it as Peziza. 



The perithecia are yellowish-brown to fawn-coloured, 

 globose, 0-3 mm. diameter, scattered or clustered. When 

 dry the centre collapses. They are densely clothed with 

 interwoven hyphae, hyaline or brownish in colour, with free 

 spreading ends, nodular above, up to 30 x 4 \^.. The asci are 

 clavate, eight-spored, spores biseriate, 80 x 12 \i, furnished 

 with slender paraphyses. The spores are oblong-oval, ends 

 rounded, one -septate, not constricted at the septum, 12-16 x 

 5 ^, wall faintly striate. In Saccarrdo's classification this is 

 Lasionectria ; it is included in the section Lasionectria in 

 Saccardo, IX., p. 970. 



Nectriella gigaspora Cke. & Mass. 



This species was found by Cooke and Massee among the 

 Ceylon specimens in Berkeley's herbarium, and was described 

 by them in Grevillea, XVII., p. 42, as " Gregaria vel sparsa. 

 Peritheciis minutis, aurantiis, pyriformibus vel ellipticis, 

 glabris ; ostiolo conico. Ascis lanceolatis, 150 ;a long, 



