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FETCH : 
granulosis e mycelio byssoideo oriundis ; sporidiis cymbi- 
formibus trisepta tis utrinque hyalinis.” The spores were 
said to be 30-62*5 long. The second of these figures is 
probably a misprint. The species was figured by Berlese, in 
leones Fungorum, I., pi. XVII., fig. 6. 
The perithecia are crowded or scattered, seated on, or 
embedded in, a purple -brown byssoid mycelium.* They are 
about 0*3 mm. diameter, minutely rugose, collapsed, and 
strongly resemble those of Eriosphæria imitatrix, but they are 
not villous. The asci are clavate, shortly pedicelled, about 
90 X 16 The spores are subeymbiform, straight or curved, 
ends rounded, three-septate, constricted at the median 
septum, the two middle cells pale brown, and the terminal 
cells hyaline, with one of the middle cells frequently inflated, 
28-32 X 5-8 [L. 
Berlese’s figure was taken from a specimen collected in 
Europe by Prof. Saccardo, which had been “ minutiöse ” 
compared with the type. But he states that the spores are 
18-22 X 6-7 and show a villous perithecium. It is 
probable that the European species is not the same as 
that from Ceylon. 
186.— Schizostoma pachythele (B. & Br.). 
Perithecia scattered or gregarious, globose, about 0*8 mm. 
diameter, rough, black, with a conical or orbicular crest 
(oval in cross section), up to 0*3 mm. high, extending over 
about one-half the perithecium. Asci clavate, apex rounded, 
100-112 X 6-7 ^ ; sporiferous part 52-62 x 6-7 pi, with a 
long, tapering, curved pedicel ; spores biseriate. Paraphyses 
numerous, linear. Spores blackish-brown, fusiform, one- 
septate, appearing spuriously three-septate, deeply con- 
stricted at the septum and readily breaking into two, 17-20 
X 4 pi. 
This was described by Berkeley and Broome as Sphæria 
(Macrostomæ) pachythele. Saccardo (Michelia, I., p. 336) 
included it in Schizostoma. Berlese, leones Fungorum, 
Vol. I., p. 2, gives the spores 14-16 X 3*5-4 pi. The spores 
appear three-septate, owing to the contraction of the contents 
from the ends. 
