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59. — Ascobolus leiocarpus B. & Br. 



Ascobolus leiocarpus B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 971, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 109. 



Gregarious, sometimes connate, fleshy, up to 3 mm. thick ; 

 up to 1-2 cm. diameter, circular, margin regular; or up to 

 2*5 cm. diameter, circular, or elongated, strongly lobed, with 

 incisions extending as much as 6 mm. into the disc. Disc plane, 

 or convex, or undulating in the larger examples, yellowish- 

 green at first, then purple-black ; margin white, with a 

 reddish tinge, scurfy ; lower surface scurfy, grayish -white, 

 greenish -yellow at the base. Asci cylindric, tapering slightly 

 below, 240 X 25-30 1^ ; pedicel usually abruptly narrowed, 

 irregularly nodulose, about 30 /^ long and 8 ^ diameter ; eight- 

 spored, spores obhquely uniseriate. Paraphyses Unear, tips 

 slightly thicker and 3 to 4 /* diameter, septate, sometimes 

 branched; tips yellow. Sjaores elliptic -oblong, ends rounded, 

 violet, then pale brown, smooth or faintly areolated with 

 very fine lines, 23-27 X 12-14 f^. 



On dung ; Peradeniya. 



Examples recently collected agree exactly with the her- 

 barium specimens. 



60. — Hypocrea fusigera B. & Br. 



Hypocrea fusigera B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 993, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 112. 



Effused ; when moist, pulvinate, tuberculate, cream 

 coloured or yellowish, somewhat pellucid, marked with 

 scattered fuscous spots (ostiola) ; when dry, flattened, and 

 more tuberculate, pale reddish-ochraceous ; irregularly oval, 

 up to 7 mm. long and 4 mm. broad, or confluent in large 

 patches ; of tenwith small outlying stromata which contain only 

 one loculus ; margin sometimes tomentose , usually glabrous ; 

 ostiola not projecting, sometimes depressed. Loculi globose 

 or ovoid, • 25 to • 3 mm. broad, 0*3 to -4 mm. deep, rather 

 distant. Asci clavate, apex rounded, 170-180 X 20 ", eight- 

 spored ; spores at first obhquely uniseriate, afterwards 

 irregularly fasciculate. Spores hyaline, fusoid, ends blunt, 

 one-septate, slightly constricted at the septum, not separating 

 into two, contents granular (granules up to 2 /* diameter), 



