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FETCH : 
121. — Peziza oncospermatis B. & Br. 
This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in 
Fungi of Ceylon, 942 Peziza (Dasyscypha) oncospermatis 
B. & Br., Cupulis breviter stipatis cyathiformibus tomentosis 
luteis : sporidiis fusiformibus angustis (435). On Oncosperma 
fasciculatum Thw., Habgalla, December, 1867. Minute, 
scattered, pale yellow ; sporidia fusiform, sharply pointed, 
thicker at one end, ’0008- *001 long ; cups *012 high.” 
This well-marked species is common at Hakgala. It does 
not, however, grow on Oncosperma (which is unknown at 
Hakgala), but on the dead frond bases which sheath the stems 
of the tree fern, Hemitelia Walkeræ. 
The total height of the fungus is about 0*6 mm. Its stalk 
is about 0*1 mm. diameter and 0*1-0 *2 mm. high, either 
simple, or dividing above into two to four branches, each of 
which bears a cup. The margins of the individual cups are 
strongly plicate, so that the whole fungus has the appearance 
of a rosette, up to I mm. diameter. It is sulphur yellow, the 
outer surface tomentose or hairy, with long, adpressed, 
upwardly directed hairs ; the margin is strongly fimbriate with 
septate hairs, which are up to 80 ^ long, and 3-4 ^ diameter 
with a blunt apex, slightly warted, and bear coarse yellow 
granules. The asci are clavate, shortly pedicellate, with 
obliquely uniseriate spores, 75-90 X 9 ^ ; paraphyses simple, 
slender. The apex of the ascus is not coloured blue with 
iodine. The ascospores are slightly cymbiform, ends pointed, 
hyaline, continuous ; extruded spores measure 30-33 X 
3-4 [x ; Berkeley and Broome’s measurement is 20-25 pi. 
It is clear that this species falls in the genus Aranæa Penz. 
& Sacc., and must accordingly be known as Aranæa oncos- 
permatis (B. & Br.). It agrees exactly with the description of 
Aranæa macrospora Penz. & Sacc., but differs in colour 
from the figure of the latter. 
122. — Peziza verruculosa B. & Br. 
In Fungi of Ceylon, 938, Berkeley and Broome recorded 
Peziza kirta (Thwaites 2 and 273). In Herb. Kew, in the 
cover of P. hirta, there are drawings of spores, marked Ceylon 
109, and Ceylon 2 and 273 ; specimens, Peziza hirta, Ceylon, 
