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FETCH : 
Perithecia scattered, oval, 0*4 x 0*2 mm. ; asci clavate, 
110 X 12-14 spores uniseriate or obliquely uniseriate ; spores 
black-brown, opaque, narrow-oval, slightly inequilateral, ends 
obtuse, 14-18 x 6-8 with a hyaline coat, 1 pi thick, not 
evident on extruded spores. On hare’s dung, Peradenij^a, 
September, 1912, &c.; No. 3584 in Herb. Peradeniya. 
Ad 1*5 mm. alt. ; capite 0*5-1 *5 mm. diam., irregulariter 
globoso, sub-applanato, ostiolis prominentibus, albo vel 
brunneo-albo, minute tomentoso, intus rubro-brunneo ; stipite 
ad 0*5 mm. alt., 0*3 mm. diam. Peritheciis sparsis, ovalibus, 
0*4 X 0*2 mm. ; ascis clavatis, 110 x 12-14 sporis uniseriatis 
vel oblique uniseriatis ; sporis nigro-brunneis, angusto-ovalibus, 
sub-inequilateralibus, obtusis, 14-18 X 6-8 
Poronia macrorhiza Speg. 
Hakgala, December, 1905. 
Valsaceæ. 
Thyridium flavum n. sp. 
Stroma yellow, 0*5 mm. thick, several mm. long and broad, 
embedded in the cortex, composed of yellow hyphæ and 
cortical tissue. Perithecia rather distant, globose, 0*3 mm. 
diameter ; wall thin, brown, membranous, collapsing when dry 
and easily removed from the stroma ; ostiola conical, not 
projecting, scattered, not converging. Asci eylindric, eight- 
spored, sporiferous part 80 x 10 pi.. Paraphyses numerous. 
Spores muriform, with three transverse and one longitudinal 
septa, thick- walled, oblong-oval, blackish fuliginous with black 
septa, or almost opaque, 16-20 X 8-10 pi. Pycnidia superfcial, 
gregarious, confluent below, subglobose or ovoid, black, thick- 
walled, wall yellow internally ; spores minute, linear, hyaline, 
3—4 X 1 
On dead branches of Hevea brasiliensis Muell-Arg., Pera- 
deniya, February, 1917 ; No. 4968 in Herb. Peradeniya. 
Stromatibus flavis, 0*5 mm. crass., multis mm. long, et lat., - 
cortice immersis, by phis flavis et cellulis corticis compositis ; 
peritheciis subremotis, globosis, 0*3 mm. diam., sicco facile 
separabilibus, pariete tenui, membranaceo, brunneo, sicco 
collapso, ostiolis coniois, immersis, non convergentibus ; ascis 
