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capped, cap with a central pore, 250-300 X 5-6 \k ; spores 



filiform, as long as the ascus, septate. On Panicum sp., 



Ceylon. 



This species has the same stmicture as Balansia, but its stroma 

 is light coloured; it has been re- described as BalansieUa ptilvinula 

 (B. & Br.) Fetch, in Ann. Perad., VI., p. 173. 



Hypocrella Panici Massee, Kew Bulletin, 1899, p. 173. — 



Stroma 2-3 cm. long. 2 mm. diameter, black, composite, 



consisting of fungus hyphee and the enclosed leaves, &c., of 



the shoot, adherent to a leaf along one side ; perithecia 



crowded in a distinct peripheral zone, flask-shaped, up to '3 



mm. high, 0*1 mm. diameter; ostiola shghtly projecting ; asci 



cyhndric, 175-225 X 4-6 [)., pedicel up to 50 ^. long, tapering ; 



sipores almost as long as the ascus, 1-1*5 diameter, hyaline, 



continuous (in the available specimens). 



This species is Balansia, and will stand as Balansiu Panici 

 (Massee) ; as the thickness of the stroma, above the embedded 

 leaves, &c., is only 0-7 mm., it might perhaps be transferred to 

 Dothichloe, but the shape and structure of the stroma is exactly 

 that of Balansia hrevis (B. & Br.) v. Hohnel. 



Hypocrella hypoxylon (Peck) Sacc, Sylloge Fungorum, 

 11., p. 581 ; Ejnchloe hypoxylon, Peck, 27th Report, p. 108 ; 

 Balansia hypoxylon (Peck) Atkinson, Jour, of Mycology, XI., 

 p. 254. 



This species appears to have been correctly placed by Atkinson 

 in Balansia. 



Hypocrella atramentosa (B. & C.)Sacc., Michelia, I., p. 323; 

 Hypocrea atramentosa B. & C, Cuban Fungi No. 758 ; Dothi- 

 chloe atramentosa (B. & C.) Atkinson, Jour, of Mycology, XI. 

 p. 260. 



This is the type species of the genus Dothichloe which includes 

 species with stromata sinailar in structure to those of Balansia. 



Hypocrella tuberiformis (Berk. & Rav.) Atkhison, Bot. 



Gazette (1891), pp. 256 and 258 ; Dussiella tuberiformis 



(Berk. & Rav.) Pat., Bull. Soc. Myc. France, VI. (1890), 



pp. 107-109 (in part) ; Hypocrea tuberiformis Berk. & Rav., 



Cooke, GreviUea, XII., p. 105. 



Reference has previously been made to this much-discussed 

 species. Whether all the forms described under these names are 

 identical or not, it is clear from the descriptions that none of 

 them is Hypocrella. 



