350 PETCH : 



Cribraria microcarpa, Pers. 



Three gatherings. Total height 2-25 to 3-75 mm. Spo- 

 rangia globose, gregarious, stipitate, erect, or nodding, 0*25 to 

 0-5 mm. diameter, purple-brown. Stalk slender, 2 to 3* 5 mm. 

 liigli, purple-brown. Cup rudimentary ; nodes of the net 

 globose, charged with purple-brown granules about 1 H- 

 diameter ; threads yellow. Spore mass reddish. Spores pale 

 red, minutely and closely warted, 7 to 8 A* diameter. The 

 Ceylon specimens differ from typical C. microcarpa in having 

 larger spores, smaller plasmodic granules, and less red in the 

 sporangium. 



Gangaruwa, HunugaUa. 



Cribraria violacea, Rex. 



Collected once ; ten sporangia, scattered, on very rotten 

 wood in jungle. Total height 0'6 to 1*5 mm. Sporangia 

 spherical, 02 mm. diameter, or ellipsoid, 0*12 mm. broad, 

 0' 2 mm. high, dark violet. Cup occupying one-half or almost 

 the whole of the sporangium, with a few perforations at the 

 apex, or with a net of extremely fine threads ; in some cases 

 the " net " consists of large fragments of the sporangium wall 

 united by a few fine threads. Stalk 0*4 to 1'3 mm. high, 

 25 to 35 A' diameter, subulate, violet-brown, longitudinally 

 striate. Plasmodic granules purple, minute. Spores lilac, 

 5 to 6 i-i diameter, minutely and closely warted. 



Hunugalla. 



Dictydium umbilicatum, Schrad. 



Dictydium umbilicatum, Schrad., in B. & Br., Fungi of 

 Ceylon, No. 769. 



Abundant. Total height up to 4 mm. Sporangia usually 

 small, 0*2 to 0*5 mm. diameter. Plasmodic granules on the 

 spores, 1 to 3 /L( diameter. In one gathering, in which the 

 sporangia are 0*5 mm. diameter and the total height varies 

 from 1 to 1-5 mm., the length of the " hook " at the apex of 

 the stalk is • 3 mm. ; this brings the sporangium down almost 

 to the base of the stem. 



Peradeniya, Gangaruwa, Hakgala, &c. 



