292 FETCH : 



Leptospora cirrhostoma (B. & Br.) Cooke, Grevillea, XV., 

 p. 125. 



Perithecia su])erticial. gregarious, about 0'5 mm. diameter, 

 black, clotheil (except on the disc) with lax, radiating, simple, 

 black, or black-brown septate hyphae up to 2 mm. long and 

 4 [X diameter, cro%ATied by a naked disc, about 0*2 mm. 

 diameter, which is orange m the centre and pale yellow 

 towards the margin ; perithecial wall leathery, not carbona- 

 ceous ; ostiolum depressed. Asci clavate, eight-spored , 110- 

 150 X 14-15 jx, sjiores bi^eriate above, uuiseriate below. 

 Paraphyses numerous, filiform. vSpores fusoid, shghtly curved, 

 greenish hyaline with hyaline acute tips about 4 ^ long, at 

 first one-septate, constricted at the septum, and inflated on 

 one or both sides of it, ultimate^ 3-4 sejjtate, 32-42 x 7 ^x.. 

 In the available material, i.e., the herbarium specimens 

 collected by Tln\aites, and others recently collected at Pera- 

 deniya, all the matm'e spores have one septum, and the majority 

 show indications of two or three additional septa, but com- 

 plet<.»ly three- or four-septate spores are rare. 



Berkeley and Broome cite, as Thwaites's collection numbers, 

 171 yrid 1073. This does not mean that Thwaites sent two 

 collections. l)ut that 1073 was part of 171, separated by 

 Bfirkcley and Broome. They add : " In No. 171 some of the 

 hairs are lancet-shaped," and " in the same group are speci- 

 menu externally just the same, but with very small hyaline 

 very strongly curved sporidia. Apparently another form of 

 fructification of the same species." Th{\v appear to have 

 forgotten that they had already described this form, with 

 lancet-shaped hairs, and curved sporidia, as Sphceria hijMri- 

 nila (Tliuail4s 1074, 171 in part). 



105.— Berkelella stilbigera (B. & Br.) 8acc. 



Stilbum tomentosum Schrad. 



This si)eciep was described by Berkeley and Broome under 

 the name llyjxrmyccs .slillm/er B. & Br. (.lour. I^mn. 8oc., XIV., 

 p. 1 13) aw follows : — 



Perilhj'ciis obovatis acutis ; a«cis elongatis, membrana 

 interiorc (•a|)itata ; sporidiis fusiformibus multiseptatis. coni- 



