202 FETCH : 



I. — Stroma plane, thin, spore masses confluent : — 



(1) Pycnidia widely open, irregular . . A. hypocreoidea 



(2) No pycnidia, basidia on a central 



disc . . . . H. Sloaneae 



K. — Pycnospores, 4-6 X 1'5 (x . . H. 'palmicola 



N.B. — Small specimens of A. placenta may have regular 

 pycnidia, and resemble A. Tamurai, others may have thin 

 stromata as in A. hypocreoidea, from which they differ in the 

 colour of the spore masses. 



Hypocrella. 

 I. — Stroma pezizoid, simple or compound . . H. turbinata 



II. — Stroma discoid : — 



A. — Orange-red or yellow . . H. discoidea 



B. — White, becoming green . . H. viridans 



III. — Stroma stud-shaped . . . . H. phyllogena 



IV. — Stroma two-thirds globose : — 



A. — Minutely verrucose : — 



(1) Red-brown . . . . H. palmse 



(2) Greenish or olive-brown . . H. olivacea 



B. — Smooth : — 



(1) Stroma scarlet, perithecia scattered . H . ceramichroa 



(2) Stroma scarlet, perithecia in an apical 



area . . . . H. caulium 



(3) Stroma yellow or buff, glabrous, 



becoming fuscous . . . . H. Reineckiana 



(4) Stroma buff, minutely pruinose . . H. epiphylla 



(5) Stroma reddish-brown . . H. cavernosa 



V. — Stroma flattened pulvinate, or scutate : — 



A. — Irregularly pulvinate, white or pale 



yellow . . . . H. Mollii 



B, — Even, stroma resinous . . H. scutata 



