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base, equal or attenuated upwards, minutely fibrillose ; head 
irregularly ovoid, woolly, grayisl^- white, up to G mm. high, 
2 mm. diameter, forming a tangled mass of hyphæ and spores ; 
conidia oval, ends acute, hyaline, 2-3 X 1-1*5 [a. 
On dead twigs, Peradeniya, December, 1913 ; No. 4097 in 
Herb. Peradeniya. 
Gregaria, ad 12 mm. alt. ; stipite fulvo-brunneo, nigrescenti, 
ad 8 mm. alt., basi 0*4 mm., æquali vel sursum attenuate, 
minute fibrilloso ; capite irregulariter ovoideo, lanuginoso, 
griseo-albo, ad 6 mm. alt., 2 mm. diam. ; conidiis ovalibus, 
acutis, hyalinis, 2-3 X 1-1*5 pi.. 
Arthrosporium tenue Penz. & Sacc. 
Peradeniya, December, 1914. 
Sporocybe compacta n. sp. 
Conidiophores scattered or clustered, black, up to 1*6 mm. 
high. Stalk longitudinally striate, often twisted, equal, 
50-150 p. diameter. Head compact, subglobose or ovoid, 
0 • 1-0 • 25 mm. diameter. Conidia narrow -oval, black in mass, 
very pale fuhginous, almost hyaline, 4-6 X 2*5-3 p.. 
On dead branches of Hevea hrasiliensis Muell-Arg., Pera- 
deniya, February, 1917 ; No. 4970 in Herb. Peradeniya. 
Synnematis sparsis vel congregatis, nigris, ad 1 *6 mm. alt. ; 
stipitibus longitudinaliter striatis, sæpe tortis, æquahbus, 
50-150 p. diam. ; capitibus subglobosis vel ovalibus, 0*1-0*25 
mm. diam. ; conidiis angusto-ovaUbus, coacervatis nigris, 
pallidissime fuligineis, fere hyalinis, 4-6 x 2*5-3 p,. 
Sporocybe favicola n. sp. 
Stalk up to 2*5 mm. high, 0*1 mm. diameter at the base, 
0*06 mm. diameter at the apex, rigid, black; head globose, 
0*3 mm. diameter, black, composed of branching conidio- 
phores, ultimate branches hyaline and about 1 p. diameter, 
bearing conidia terminally and laterally ; conidia narrow 
oval, ends acute, fuscous, with a pale line down the middle, 
4-5 X 2 p.. On a bee’s comb, Hakgala, May, 1913 ; No. 4406 
in Herb. Peradeniya. 
Stipite ad 2*5 mm. alt., basi 0*1 mm. diam., apice 0*06 
mm. diam., rigido, nigro ; capite globoso, 0*3 mm. diam., 
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