29<') FETCH : 



authorities inform me that under FracchioBa hrevibarbata at 

 Kew there is a Ceylon specimen labelled " Sphceria Broomeiana 

 Berk. Ceylon, G. H. K.T., Sept. 10, 1850." The latter should 

 be the tj^pe of Coronophora Broomeiana (Berk.). Evidently 

 Cooke considered Coronophora Broomeiana to be identical with 

 Fr. hrevibarbata, though he did not employ the earlier name, 

 and in his Synopsis PjTrenomycetum he included the latter 

 under Fracchicea and the former under Coronophora. 



Fracchicea brevibarbata has been described and figured by 

 Berlese (Icones Fungorum, III., p. 27, PI. XXXV., Fig. 2) from 

 a specimen supplied by Cooke. It is evidently quite distinct 

 from Fracchicea hystricula, which is the only Fracchicea 

 re -discovered in Ceylon up to the present. But it is difficult 

 to understand from the figure and description how Berkeley 

 could style it " minutissime tomentosa," and give it the name 

 brevibarbata. In view of the apparent confusion of Ceylon and 

 American species, it would be interesting to determine 

 whether the two are really identical, and which of them is 

 represented by Berlese's figure. 



101. — Fracchiaea hystricula (B. & Br.) Fetch. 



Sphceria (byssisedce) hystricula B. & Br., Jour. Linn. Soc, 

 XIV., p. 125. 



Rosellinia hystricula (B, & Br.) Sacc, Sylloge Fungorum, I., 

 p. 274. 



Chcetosphceria hystricula (B. & Br.) Cooke, Grevillea, XV., 

 p. 124. 



Superficial : jjerithecia scattered or crowded, on a feebly- 

 developed, bj'ssoid stroma, 0-5 mm. diameter, globose, black, 

 wall membranous, collapsing when old, clothed with rigid 

 hairs, 140-2G0 \i long, 13 [l diameter, black, dark brown and 

 opaque when mounted, slightly inflated at the base, tapering 

 rather abruptly at the apex. Asci broadly clavate, with a 

 long thin pedicel, 90-130 X 12-14 [x, polysporous, soon 

 diffluent. No paraphyses. Spores hyaline, narrow-oval, 

 continuous, 2-3 guttulate, curved in one aspect, 8-11 x 2-3 (a. 



On dead Hcvea, Gampola, Nov., 1909 ; Bentota, Jan., 

 1912. 



