CEYLON FUNGI. 
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The tissue of the fungus is composed of fine interwoven 
hyphæ, 1-2 ^ diameter, roughened with copious deposits of 
calcium oxalate. The red-brown bodies which appear in the 
upper layer are oval or irregular, up to 24 X 20 ^ ; they are 
amorphous, not cellular. This fungus has been under observa- 
tion for several years, but no spores or basidia have been 
observed. It has not, therefore, been possible to confirm 
Berkeley and Broome’s reference of this species to Corticium. 
Gorticium fiavo-rubens was described by Berkeley and 
Broome in Fungi of Ceylon, 647 (Thwaites 437). In 602 of 
Fungi of Ceylon they recorded Stereum sulphureum Fr. 
(Thwaites 437). The Ceylon specimens in the cover of the 
latter species in Herb. Kew are identical with C. flavo-rubens . 
The packet of duplicates was first marked Corticium flavo- 
rubens, and this crossed out and Stereum sulyhureum substi- 
tuted. There is another Ceylon specimen of the same thing, 
Thwaites 134, also marked Stereum sulphur eum by Berkeley. 
This species is probably the basis of the record of ‘‘ Corticium 
sulphureum Fr., Hakgala, Ceylon,” in Saccardo. It was 
cited by Massee as Stereum strumosum Fr., in Mon. Thele- 
phoreæ. 
111. — Corticium peroxydatum B. & Br. 
This was described by Berkeley and Broome in Fungi of 
Ceylon, 633, as ‘‘ Resupinatum, immarginatum, insequabile, 
læve, subtiliter pulverulentum, martianum, intus cinnabari- 
num (270).” It was transferred by Massee to Goniophora 
(Jour. Linn. Soc., XXV., p. 136). The type in Herb. Kew is 
a developing Hypoxylon, and has been so marked by E. A. 
Burt. On cutting into the fungus the black stroma of the 
Hypoxylon is found beneath the outer coloured layer. 
112. — Stereum acerinum Fr. 
This species was recorded for Ceylon by Berkeley and 
Broome in Fungi of Ceylon, 603. The specimens, at least in 
part, are now in Herb. Peradeniya. They consist of pieces of 
bark, not dead wood as stated by Berkeley and Broome, 
which bear numerous white patches. These patches are 
irregularly circular or oval, elevated, with a definite rounded 
margin. They are up to 4 mm. in diameter and 1 mm. in 
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