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towards the apex ; the exterior appears granular or pruinose 

 under a low magnification. When old, the substance of the 

 cups contains numerous cubic crystals, up to 15 a broad. 

 The larger specimens are laterally compressed when dry. 

 Spores smooth, ellipsoid, pale brown to yellow-brown, 8-10 x 

 5-7 [JL, often with a large gutta. 



Common on dead branches, e.g., cacao. Versicolor is the 

 form with a stroma, pruinosa the form without. 



87. — Exobasidium cinnamomi Fetch. 



This species was described in Ann. Perad., Vol. IV., p. 301 

 (March, 1909). It occurs on Cinnamomum zeylanicum Bl. 

 and Cinnamomum cassia Bl. In a paper by J. S. Gamble 

 " On the determination of the fungi which attack forest trees 

 in India" (Indian Forester, circa 1900), I find a reference to 

 Exobasidium Cinnamomi Mass., on Cin^iamomum Tamala, 

 which is said to have been recorded previously in Indian 

 Forester, XXI., p. 133. I am unable at present to consult 

 that volume of the Indian Forester, but it would appear from 

 Gamble's statement that the description of the fungus had 

 not been published when he wrote. As there is no record of 

 Massee's species in Saccardo, it would seem probable that 

 the description has not been published. 



88. — Physarum chlorinum Cooke. 



Examination of the type specimen at Kew shows that this 

 is identical with Melanconium melanoxanthum^ B. & Br. = 

 Endocalyx mdanoxanthus (B. & Br.) Fetch. Cooke's name 

 was published in Grevillea, V., p. 101 (March, 1877), Berkeley 

 and Broome's in Jour. Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 89 (Dec, 1873). 



89. — Reticularia apiospora B. & Br. 

 Reticularia apiospora B. & Br., Jour. Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 82. 



Trichosporium apiosporum (B. & Br.) Massee, Jour, Myc, 

 1889, p. 186. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome as 

 follows : — " Effusa, dendritica, fulva ; peridio fibroso-sericeo ; 

 sporis obovatis, basi breviter auctis hyalinis (No. 266). 



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