Studies in Entomogenous Fungi. T. Petch. 149 
which, if constant, might have occasioned some doubt. In the 
Florida, Dominica, and Zululand specimens, at the time when 
the spores are apparently fully mature, they are clearly visible, 
with distinctly evident septa, embedded in a small quantity of 
plasma in the ascus, which is still thick-walled. The figures 
given by Miyabe and Sawada, of the Formosan specimens, 
illustrate the same condition. In the Ceylon gathering, some 
perithecia show asci and spores identical with the above des- 
cription, but, in perithecia which contain free ascospores, the 
appearance is different. The asci have thin walls, but a thickened 
apex, and the walls and septa of the contained spores can only 
be detected with difficulty. The ascus, at first sight, appears 
to be filled with granular protoplasm, containing a large number 
of guttae. The extruded spores (Plate V, fig. 15) have thin 
walls and indistinct septa, and have granular contents with 
numerous large guttae. Zimmermann figures this condition of 
the ascospore in his specimen of Ophionectria coccicola from Java. 
It would appear from the foregoing that the second state 
described is that of the mature ascospore, but there is no 
reference to any such condition in the North American publi- 
cations which deal with this species. 
It is generally agreed that Scleroderris gigaspora Massee, from 
Trinidad, is Ophionectria coccicola. There is no type specimen 
in Herb. Kew. 
Podonectria Aurantit (v. Hohnel) Petch. 
Von Hohnel described Puttemansia Auranti as follows: 
Sporodochia rounded, somewhat depressed globose, dark, 
white pruinose, 520 x 400 ». Conidia in groups of 2 to 7, generally 
3 to 4, on a basal cell, 8-10 x 5-6. Single conidia hyaline, 
cylindrico-fusoid, straight, thick-walled, 130-180 x 8-9, 18- 
to 23-septate, with an aseptate tip, 10-20 p long. 
Perithecia on a plectenchymatous stroma, which is up to 
250 w thick and gradually thins to the margin, clustered, white, 
woolly, globose, somewhat flattened above, 570 diameter 
including the woolly outer covering, 300-400 without it. 
Ostiolum minute on a naked disc; perithecia elsewhere densely 
clothed with hyaline, thick-walled, septate, flexuose, woolly 
hairs, up to 424 long and 3-4 diameter, which are often 
united into fascicles. Perithecial wall 30 » thick. Asci cylindric, 
attenuated below, shortly stalked, with a foot, rounded at 
the apex, thick-walled (6-7 ~), 180-200 x 20p, eight-spored, 
spores biseriate. Paraphyses numerous, Ip diameter, longer 
than the asci. Spores hyaline, clavate, broadest at the upper 
end, lower end obtuse, thin-walled, 10- to 13-septate, not con- 
stricted, 66-80 x 8-10 m: occasionally six-septate and 52 pu long. 
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