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FETCH : 
Subglobosus vel depressus, ad 2 cm. diam., brunneo-flavus, 
rugosus, intus (sicco) rubrobrunneus ; loculis parvis, centro 
irrégularité! polygoniis, exteriorem versus quadrangulis et 
elongatis, ad 1 x 0‘3 mm. ; peridio tenui, circa. 25 ^ crass, 
(sicco), dissepimentibus, 10 (x crass. ; columella nulla ; basidiis 
unisporis, sterigmatibus brevibus ; sporis flavobrunneis, 
verrucosis, episporio crasso, ovalibus vel biapiculatis, 
12-16 X 8-9 |x. 
Phàllaceæ. 
Mutinus bambusinus (Zoll.) Fischer. 
Peradeniya, a single specimen. May 30, 1912 ; abundant. 
October 29-No vember 23, 1914. 
10-16 cm. high, head 5-8 cm. long. Stalk usually attenu- 
ated below, pink above, becoming white below, outer walls of 
chambers perforated, passing with or without an abrupt 
change of diameter into the head. Head (gleba removed) 
regularly conical, rugose, crimson to dark red, inner walls of 
chambers perforated or almost wanting. Apex of head often 
destitute of gleba for a length of about 3 mm., laterally com- 
pressed, open or closed ; if open, the two lips of the orifice are 
closely applied to one another. Smell, vinous or fruity at a 
short distance, but foetid when close. 
USTILAOINACEÆ. 
Sphacelotheca monilifera (Ell. & Ev.) Clinton. 
In ovaries of Andropogon contortus L., Jaffna, November, 
1916. 
In the affected inflorescences, the awns are suppressed and 
the glumes are destitute of hairs, though the tubercles persist. 
There are specimens in. the phanerogamic herbarium at Pera- 
deniya collected at Jaffna by Trimen. 
Uredinaceæ. 
Uromyces. 
Uromyces Vestergreni Syd. , ; 
On Bauhinia tomentosa L., Sigiriya, x4,u^ust,,1912. 
