414 FETCH : 



( = M. rujesceiis) appear to justify the assumption that his 

 name refers to the species described below, though, as far as I 

 can discover, the name was pubhshed without any description. 



Pileus 3 to 10 mm. diameter, hemispherical, or broadly 

 campanulate, deeply incised behind, affixed at one side just 

 above the incision, grayish white, or faintly ochraceous, 

 reticulated with sulcae which correspond with the lines of 

 insertion of the gills, bullate between the furrows, minutely 

 rugose ; margin white, sometimes crenate, sometimes narrow- 

 ly recurved ; quite sessile ; substance thin, outer layer dry, 

 internally subgelatinous. Gills radiating from a point or a 

 half ring at the apex of the incision, white, consisting of four 

 or five deep primary gills which usually fork several times at 

 their outer ends and are united by numerous narrower gills or 

 ribs which form an intermediate network : edge blunt ; basidia 

 two-spored. Spores white, narrow, oval, 11-13 X 3-5-4 /«. 



On dead twigs, and on leaf sheaths of palms. 



55. — Auricularia (sensu Lindau). 



There are two common and one rare species of this group 

 in Ceylon, but there are seven names in the published Msts. 

 Konig collected Hirneola rufa (Berk.) Fr. ; Thwaites gathered 

 Hirneola hispidula Berk., and Auricularia lohata Sommf. ; 

 Beccari collected Hirneola hispidula Berk., Auricularia lohata 

 Sommf., and Laschia lurida Ces. ; Holtermann records 

 Auricularia {Laschia) velutina Lev. and A. (Laschia) tremellosa 

 Fr. ; while Saccardo gives Ceylon as a locahty for Laschia 

 tremellosa Fr. and Hirneola polytricha Mont., the records of 

 which I have not been able to trace. 



Holtermann figures (Mykologische Untersuchungen, PI. 6, 

 Fig, la) what he considers typical Hirneola 'polytricha Mont. ; 

 the figure represents just as typical Hirneola hispidula Berk, 

 somewhat dried, as shown bj?' the incurved edge, and it has a 

 common habit of the latter of growing on rather small branches. 

 Hispidula is said to be sessile, polytricha stalked ; this appears 

 to be the chief difference ; but hispidula may be either stalked 

 or sessile, and I have grown specimens, on tea branches 

 half embedded in damp earth under bell glasses and kept 

 constantly mdist, with cylindrical, solid, tomentose stalks up 



