2S8 FETCH : 



When first developed the fnictitication is soft and pure 

 white, and bears hyaline conidia, 6-8 X 2-3 jx, narrow -oval 

 or slightly clavate, on close-packed, erect, parallel, simple 

 basidia. It then becomes greenish owing to the development 

 of the hard crust beneath the conidia I layer. In sheltered 

 situations the mature stroma maj^ remain permanently white, 

 owing to the persistence of the remains of the conidial layer, 

 Injt in general it becomes violet-gray, or purple-gray, dotted 

 with black ostiola. Old weathered specimens are black. 

 The jx^rithecia are globose, about 1 mm. diameter, and 

 distant ; and the ostiola scarcely project. The asci are 

 cylindric, long-stalked, about 250 X 10 [j., eight-spored ; the 

 apex turns blue with iodine. There are numerous filiform 

 paraphj'scs. The spores are opaque , black-brown , cjanbiform , 

 ends obtuse ; measurements on different collections gave 

 30-38 X 10-13 iJL, 34-36 x 10 [i., 30-38 x 9-10 (x. Penzig 

 and fSacoardo give the spores of the Java s])ecies 33-36 x 

 10-12 (jL, while von Hohnel states that in his specimens they 

 were 45-48 X 8-8-5 ^x. 



Compared with English specimens collected in Norfolk, the 

 Ceylon species differs in colour, and is usually thinner ; its 

 ostiola are less prominent ; its jjerithecia are smaller and 

 more globose ; and its spores are, on the average, broader. 

 But the diflerences are not great. Biologically the Ceylon 

 species/ap pears to dilTcr in its parasitic habit, though informa- 

 tion regarding the h^uropean sjiecies is wanting on that point. 

 'i'he Ceylon species appears to agree fairly well with von 

 llohnel's re -description of ll.Hlulimi zovala Ijev., except in the 

 size of the spores. But as that author does not consider the 

 difference between his measurements and those of Penzig and 

 Saccardo important, no stress need be laid on that point. 



I'nt Mill II(")hnc'l found with his specimens a Orapliium. 

 which he regards as the conidial stage. He states that it 

 resembled a dwarf IhelcpJujrn , and gi-ew either on the upper 

 or under side of the Ustulina. The synnemata are brittle, 

 dark red-brown below, violet-brown above, and reddish-white 

 at the <jbtusc apex. They are jiodular, bent, simple or 

 sligjitly branelu'(l, up to 3 mm. long and 200 to 300 [x broad. 

 At the a|K"X they bear a white head, 200 to 300 ;x broad, oi 



