:U2 FETCH : 



dark brown when moist, but became yellow-brown when dry. 

 In general, the plasmodiocarps are netted, and in one instance 

 a continuous netted plasmodiocarp covered an area measuring 

 14 X 8 centimetres. In many cases the plasmodiocarps 

 are empty when found, only the wall remaining ; this suggested 

 that the capillitium might rupture the wall of the plas- 

 modioc?,rp and be ejected elastically, but this did not 

 occur when specimens were developed in the laboratory. 

 Exposure to sunlight bleached the yellow-brown wall to 

 grayish-brown, and the yellow capilhtium to ochraceous, or 

 almost white. Tliis species was fairly common at Peradeniya 

 during April-June, 1905, being gathered on five occasions, but 

 I have not met with another specimen during the last four 

 years. 



Fuligo septica, Gmel. 



JEthalium aepticum, Fr., B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 

 No. 741. 



A common species : aethalia up to 20 centimetres in 

 diameter, usually with a strongly developed, red-brown 

 hjrpothallus ; outer crust yellow, or reddish, or white ; lime 

 knots generally yeUow, but white in one gathering ; spores 6 

 to 8 yu diameter. 



Peradeniya, Gangaruwa, Hakgala, Kotmale, Hunugalla, 

 Urumuwela, Yatiyantota. 



Fuligo museorum, A. & S. 



Lime knots yellow, with few short hyaline threads, spores 

 10 to 12 /J diameter, dark, spinulose. On rotten wood. 



Peradeniya, Emelina Estate (MaskeUya). 



Fuligo ellipsospora, Lister. 



A fairly common species, often occurring in abundance on 

 fallen stems of the papaw {Carina papaya) and on cacao pods : 

 in the latter case it sometimes occurs on diseased pods still 

 attached to the trees. On one occasion it developed on a 

 cacao pod in a damp chamber in the laboratory, and what is 

 presumably the plasmodium of this species has been observed 

 several times under the same conditions, but the sethaha have 

 not been obtained. The plasmodium is wliite. The sethalia 



