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Perithecia semi-immersed, deep red , globose, almost smooth, 

 up to 0-25 mm. diameter, with a papillaeform or cylindrie 

 ostiolum, 0-05 mm. high. Asci cylindrie, almost linear, 

 140-175 X 6-7 fx, apex truncate, spores uniseriate. Spores 

 narrow-oval, hyalme, one-septate, scarcely constricted, 

 strongly verrucose, 25-30 x 5-7 [x, with an apparently solid 

 tip, sometimes curved, 3-5 |jl long; some spores are only 

 19 X 6, obtuse, with the tip scarcely apparent. 



96. — Ophionectria trichospora (B. & Br.) Sacc. 

 Nectria trichospora B. & Br., Jour. Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 115. 



Ophionectria trichospora (B. & Br.) Sacc, IVIichelia, I., p. 323. 



Perithecia scattered or in small clusters on a thin, radiating, 

 reddish-brown or whitish byssoid stroma, blood red, 0-25 

 mm. diameter, 0-4 mm. high, ovoid, apex subtruncate, rugose, 

 ostiolum minute, scarcely evident. Asci 200-250 x 20-25 y., 

 cylindrie, eight-spored. Spores 180-240 x 6-8 ;j., pluri- 

 septate, not constricted, vermiform, either of uniform 

 diameter or tapering somewhat to either end, ends rounded. 



This clearly belongs to the genus Tuheufia Penz. and Sacc, 

 but as it is the type species of the genus Ophionectria, Tuheufia 

 would appear to be superfluous. 



97.— Hypocrea lenta (Tode) B. & Br. 



Hypocrea lenta Fr. in B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 992. 



A Ceylon Hypocrea was listed by Berkeley and Broome in 

 the Fungi of Ceylon as Hypocrea lenta Fr. In Ellis and 

 Everhart, North American Pyrenomycetes , p. 78, there 

 appears Hypocrea lenta (Tode), with, the synonym Hypocrea 

 lenta B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 992 ; Ellis and Everhart 

 stated that they had only one specimen, which was obtained 

 from California. Finally, in Die Hj^ocreaceen von Rio 

 Grande do Sul (Annales Mycologici, IX., p. 59), Theissen 

 records Hypocrea Schweinitzii (Fr.) E. & E., and cites among 

 the synonyms Hypocrea lenta (Tode) B. & Br., Ceylon Fungi, 

 p. 112. But Hypocrea Schweinitzii is brown, then black, 

 white internally, with hyaline spores, while the Ceylon species 

 (type and fresh specimens examined) is dark green, flesh- 



