ADDITIONS TO CEYLON FUNGI (ll.). M)l 



On dead wood, Hakgala, December, 1917 ; No. 5579 in 

 Herb. Peradeniya. There are examples of this in Thwaites's 

 specimen of Rosellinia rhypara B. & Br., in Herb. Peradeniya 

 (Thw. 555) ; the latter has larger spores, no white film, and a 

 more globose perithecium. 



Rosellinia Beccariana Ces. 



On dead Erythrina, Wariapola, January, 1918 ; No. 5555 in 

 Herb. Peradeniya. 



Perithecia crowded, superficial, depressed globose, often 

 distorted by mutual pressure, up to 4 mm. diameter, purple- 

 black, with a broad darker area round the ostiolum, smooth, 

 but cracking concentrically when dry ; wall carbonaceous, 

 fragile ; ostiolum black, conical, obtuse, up to 0*5 mm. high, 

 ■ 7 mm. diameter at the base. Spores black-brown, lanceolate 

 or narrow cymbiform, often inequilateral, 40-70 x 6-8 {Jt- the 

 apices usually attenuated into a point 5 ^ long. 



The original description states that the perithecia are 

 obversely pyiiform. 



Sordaria fimiseda Ces. & de Not. 



On cowdung. Hakgala, December, 1917; No. 5504 m Herb, 

 Peradeniya. 



Sordaria communis Speg. 



On cowdung, Hakgala, September, 1918 ; No. 5797 in Herb. 

 Peradeniya, &c. 



Sordaria citrina n. sp. 



Superficial, scattered or clustered, conoid, about 1 mm. 

 high, 0*6 mm. diameter, lemon-yellow, subtranslucent when 

 fresh, densely clothed with short yellow hy[)h8e and 

 attached to the substratum by yellow mycelium ; apex black, 

 straight. Perithecial wall parenchymatous, yellowto brownish- 

 yeUow, blackening at the base and apex ; mass of immatiu'e 

 asci and paraphyses yellow, Asci cylindric, tapering below, 

 eight-spored, 190 X 16 jjl ; paraphyses numerous, linear, 

 slightly inflated at the apex, containing yellow granules. 

 Immature spores cylindric, pale yellow, multiguttulate, 

 80 X 4 tJi-. Mature spores oval, acuminate at the apex, 

 truncate at the base, black, 16-20 x 8-9 t*-, with a basal 



