b MOULD ATTACKING THE COIFKE PLANTATIONS IN CEALON. 



is always to destroy everything in tiie neighbouring garden, a 

 custom which, tliough arising evidently from exaggerated fears, 

 may not be altogether void of foundation in experience. 



Mr. Gardner supposed on a mere cursory inspection that the 

 fungus, as is the case in some other forms of Fuiliago, belonged to 

 the genus Antennaria ; but this is not the case, the parasite really 

 belonging to Corda's curious genus Triposporivmi, a few threads 

 of which have been found in similar cases of blight in England, 

 but merely scattered amongst other moulds, so as not to enable 

 me to ascertain whetlier the species is the same with that from 

 Ceylon, whicli is however quite distinct from tiie original species 

 of Corda, wliich has been found by Mr. Broome on oak chips 

 near Bristol, and of which Corda has given a splendid figure in 

 his Pracht-Flora. I subjoin a sketch and specific characters of 

 Mr. Gardner's species. 



Triposporium Gardneri, N. s. ; mycelium densely interwoven, fertile tlneads 



shorf, spores elongated, 

 Tlie figure rejjresents at a a portion magnified, in wliich it will be seen that tlie 



spores are sometimes elongated at the apex, and proliferous ; and at b one of 



the triple spores Ijiglily magnified. 



