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COHORT II.— LAMPROSPORALES. 



SUBCOHORT I.— ANEMINE^. 



Order I. — Heterodermace^. 



Lindbladia tubulina, Fries. 



Found once, in the jungle at Hakgala (5,600 feet), on dead 

 wood ; the issuing plasmodium was black, or bluish-black 

 internally. ^EthaUa pulvinate, or effused, up to 2*5 cm. 

 broad, umber-brown, shining bronze where the waU is persis- 

 tent, or black : some pieces had a hypothallus 5 to 6 cnj. 

 diameter, but the gethalia were confined to tlie margins. Spores 

 ochraceous brown, 6 to 7 f diameter. 



Cribraria minutissima, Schwein. 



Total height 0*5 to 0-75 mm. Sporangia globose, gre- 

 garious, stipitate, nut-brown ; cup wanting ; nodes of the net 

 flattened, scarcely expanded, slightly broader than the 

 threads, almost without plasmodic granules ; spores ochraceous, 

 7 A* diameter. 



Gangaruwa. 



Cribraria intricata, Schrad. 



Common. Var. jS dictydioides has been taken on two 

 occasions at Badurehya, and also at Hapugastenne. 



Peradeniya, Badureliya, Urumuwela, Pattipola, &c. 



Cribraria tenella, Schrad. 



'' Dictydium ambiguum, Schrad.," in B. & Br., Fungi of 

 Ceylon, No. 1194. Cribraria elata, Mass., Monograph, p. 61. 



Apparently rare. A gathering from Hakgala has sporangia 

 0-5 mm. diameter, stalks 0-75 mm. high, cup small, nodes 

 rounded or elongated, with few or no free rays. It agrees with 

 Rostafinski's Ceylon type of C. tenella. 



Peradeniya, Hakgala. 



Cribraria languescens. Rex. 



Collected once. "It is the first specimen we have seen or 

 heard of from the Old World, and agrees absolutely with Rex's 

 type and Cran's gatherings in Antigua" (A. Lister in Mtt.). 

 The fresh sporangia appeared pinkish ; the length of the stalk 

 varies from 0-75 to 4 mm. ; the cup is shining red-brown ; 

 spores pale red, minutely warted, 8 /^ dianieter. 



Hakgala. 



