290 FETCH : 



flesh-coloured, pale brown when dry, clothed with long, dark 

 brown setse and short hairs, which are scattered towards the 

 base, but crowded towards the margin. Long setse usually 

 simple, tapering, acute, 0"l-0"5 mm. long, 6-12 y. diameter, 

 slightly swollen at the base. Short hairs, 30-40 [>- long, 

 straight or curved, clavate, covered, especially in the upper 

 part, with short, spreading, truncate spines. Margin of the 

 cup composed of similar hyaline hairs. Basidia cylindric, 

 24 X 6 t^. Spores hyaline, narrow-oval, or pip-shaped, 

 5-6 X 2-2-5 [A. 



On dead leaves of Symplocos, Hakgala, January, 1914, &c. ; 

 No. 4089 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Clavariaceae. 



Clavaria xylarioides n. sj). 



Simple, clavate, up to 4 cm. high, 2 mm. diameter below, 

 4 mm. diameter above, terete, apex obtuse, violet-black, black 

 at the base ; internally purple-brown, with a violet-black 

 outer zone. Basidia cj^lindrico-clavate, about 40 ^ high, 8 t". 

 diameter below, 12 ^Ji- diameter above, four-spored ; sterigmata 

 10 [t' high, .conical to half the height, then hair-like. Spores 

 broadly oval, 9-10 X 7 t^, or globose 8-9 [>- diameter. Subhy- 

 menial layer violet by transmitted light. 



On the ground, Peradeniya, December, 1914 ; No. 4389 in 

 Herb. Peradeniya. Dewalakanda, August, 1919 ; No, 6096. 



Clavaria rosolana n. sp. 



Pale rosolane purple (Ridgway 69'd) ; up to 4 cm. high; base 

 stout, up to 7 mm. diameter, short, soon dividing into stout 

 branches which fork repeatedly ; upper angles broad and 

 rounded ; tips short, obtuse. Spores white, smooth, spherical, 

 3-4 [X diameter, or oval, 4 x 3 ^.. 



On the ground, Waga, August, 1917 ; No. 5249 in Herb. 

 Peradeniya. 



Clavaria violacea n. sp. 



Violet or amethyst, becoming brown when old ; about 3 cm. 

 high, stout, up to 2' 5 mm. diameter below, twice or thrice 

 branched, lower axils acute ; tips usually once forked, with 



