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FETCH : 
first hyaline and cylindric, about 66 x 5 ^ ; they become oval, 
black-brown, opaque, 18-24 X 9-11 with a hyaline append- 
age, 5 ^ diameter, which ultimately disappears. 
The mature spores show that this species is a Sordaria, and 
it will stand as Sordaria acanthigera (B. & Br.). 
191. — Lasiosphæria hemipsila (B. & Br.) Sacc. 
Thwaites’s 1078 was described by Berkeley and Broome as 
Sphæria (Villosæ) hemipsila, ‘‘ Sparsa ; peritheciis minutis 
subglobosis dealbatis sursum nudis, basi filis rigidis munitis ; 
sporidiis curvis flexuosis triseptatis. Sporidia biseriate, *002 
(inches) long, triseptate.” It was included under Lasios- 
phæria in Saccardo, Sylloge Fungorum, II., 198. 
The specimen in Herb. Peradeniya is on a decaying palm 
frond, which bears here and there a thin film of mycelium and 
the scattered remains of conidiophores. The perithecia are 
scattered, superficial, ovoid, 0*25 mm. diameter, black, 
sparsely clothed up to the apex with rigid, spreading, shining 
hairs (stalks of conidiophores) up to 0*25 mm. long and 6 ^ 
diameter. Paraphyses are present. The ascospores are 
cylindric or fusoid, straight or curved, three- to five-septate, 
scarcely constricted at the septa, pale brown, except the small 
terminal cells, which are hyaline, 36-48 X 8 
This species is figured by Berlese in leones Fungorum, I., 
pi. 117, fig. 2, from part of the type communicated by Cooke. 
Berlese gave the ascus 150-160 X 16-20 and the spores 
48-52 X 6-8 But he did not find the smaller, three - 
septate spore. His figure shows one seven-septate spore and 
others five-septate. The figure of the perithecium shows 
flexuose hairs, and in that respect is incorrect. Berlese retains 
it in Lasiosphæria, but it is evidently Chætosphæria, and 
will stand as Chætosphæria hemipsila (B. & Br.). 
192. — Lasiosphæria tephrocoma (B. & Br.) Sacc. 
This species was said to grow on palm leaves, but the type 
in Herlf? Kew is on bamboo. The description is “ Sphæria 
(Villosæ) tephrocoma. Peritheciis setis sparsis rigidis vestitis ; 
ascis clavatis ; sporidiis fusiformibus triseptatis ; conidiis 
conformibus uniseptatis. Sporidia *0011 long; spores from 
