CEYLON FUNGI. 
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pycnidia, *0004; helminthosporoid conidia *003 (inches).” 
In Saccardo, Sylloge Fungorum, II., 198, it was placed in 
Lasiosphæria. 
The substratum bears a thin purple -brown layer of mycelium, 
almost membranous, densely covered with the remains of 
erect, rigid conidiophores, up to 1 mm. high. These stalks 
are compound, about 30 pi. diameter at the base, tapering to 
16 p. above, and arise more or less in clusters. The peri- 
thecia are produced within the base of these clusters, and 
consequently bear the remains of the conidiophores, but 
these are readily detached ; the perithecia are globose, black, 
about 0*3 mm. diameter. The asci are clavate, with a 
tapering pedicel, eight-spored, spores biseriate, 40-50 X 6 p,. 
The spores in the perithecia examined by me were narrow- 
oval or subcylindric, with rounded ends, greenish-hyaline, 
one-septate, 6-9 X 2-3 p.. They were obviously immature, 
and Berkeley and Broome’s statement that they are ulti- 
mately three -septate may be correct, but their measurement, 
27*5 p,, is an error. There may be a mixture of species 
in the type, but the perithecia and spores described above 
clearly belong to the conidiophores, which form the chief 
part of it. 
193, — Lasiosphæria chloronema (B. & Br.) Sacc. 
Thwaites’s 1109, which was immature, was described by 
Berkeley and Broome as SpJiæria (Villosæ) chloronema. 
Peritheciis globosis breviter albo-t ornent osis, ostiolo nigro, 
intus materie viride repletis.” In Saccardo, Sylloge Fun- 
gorum, II., 214, it is placed in Lasiosphæria. 
The perithecia are scattered, superficial, globose, clothed 
with yellow interwoven hyphæ, the ostiolum black and pro- 
jecting. The perithecial wall appears black in section, but 
when mounted is found to be parenchymatous, with a brown 
outer layer, blackening at the apex, and a yellow inner layer. 
The mass of asci and linear, septate paraphyses is yellow. 
The spores in the co-type in Herb. Peradeniya are not fully 
mature ; they are hyaline, cylindric, straight or curved, 
multiguttulate, 30-36 X 4 p.. 
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