354 FETCH : 



Raciborskia elegans, Beil. 



Collected on two occasions. Total height 1 to 2 mm. ; stalks 

 black, subulate ; sporangia globose, 0*5 mm. diameter, purple- 

 brown ; columella dividing repeatedly, the ultimate brandies 

 forming a slight superficial net, purple-brown; spores violet- 

 brown, 11 /i diameter, with small scattered warts. 



Peradeniya, Hakgala. On wood. 



Lamproderma arcyrionema, Rost. 



Berkeley and Broome's specimens of Didymium nigripes, 

 ' Fungi of Ceylon, No. 749 (Thwaites' 573) are L. arcyrionema in 

 Herb. Peradeniya ; the specimens are 1*5 to 1*75 mm. high, 

 with typical capiUitium, and spores 8 to 9 f« diameter, lilac- 

 gray, faintly spinulose. Fairly common. The total height 

 is sometimes 2 mm. The spores are usually 6 to 7 a* diameter, 

 sometimes 8 /^, sometimes 7 to 9 f-i, and the warts are 

 sometimes clustered. The plasmodium, as observed in Ceylon, 

 is white. 



Peradeniya, Badurehya, Henaratgoda, Pattipola, Hakgala. 



Lamproderma irideum, Mass. 



Stemonitis scintillans, B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1196. 



Berkeley and Broome's iy^e specimen in Herb. Peradeniya 

 has black subulate stalks, 0*5 mm. long, arising from a 

 red-brown hypothallus ; the sporangia are 0*3 to 0*4 mm. 

 diameter, iridescent, bronze. A common species. In one 

 gathering the capillitium is dark, with pale tips, not pale at 

 the base, but the spores are those of irideum, not violaceum. 



Peradeniya, Talawakelle, Pattipola, &c. 



Clastoderma debaryanum, Blytt. 



Rather common on rotten wood in up-country jungles, but 

 found also at lower elevations. Sporangia O'l to 0*16 mm. 

 diameter ; total lieight up to 1 • 25 mm. ; spores brown in mass, 

 pale lilac when magnified, 8 to 9 i^' diameter, minutely warted. 



Hakgala, Pattipola, Hunugalla, Gangaruwa. 



Order II. — Amauroch^tace^. 

 No representatives yet found in Ceylon. 



