340 
FETCH : 
or turbinate, about 0*1 mm. high, with a thick pseudoparen- 
chymatous wall. The turbinate, flat-topped shape appears 
to be normal, not a result of drying. The asci are clavate, 
thick-walled, about 125 X 16 pi, eight-spored. The spores 
are oval, continuous, pale brown to blackish-brown, thin- 
walled, ends usually rounded, rarely attenuated, 14-22 x 
6-11 [k. The stroma has the structure of Botryosphæria, and 
the species will stand in Phæobotryosphæria as Phæobotryos- 
phæria plicatula (B. & Br.). 
I have not seen Thwaites’s 39, but Thwaites’s 30 in Herb. 
Peradeniya is the same species. This was included by Berkeley 
and Broome in Fungi of Ceylon, 789, as a form of Sphæropsis 
undulata B. & C. with spores 17*5 ^ long. The Sphæropsis 
undulata of the Fungi of Ceylon is Haplospordla Cesatii Sacc. 
Sphæria plicatula bears a superficial resemblance to the latter 
species, and when the asci have disappeared the two might 
possibly be confused, hw-t Haplospordla has thick- walled 
spores. Thwaites’s 30, however, contains asci. The wall of 
Haplospordla Cesatii is pseudoparenchyma tous, not carbona- 
ceous, as stated in Ann. Perad., IV., p. 61. 
198. — Thyridaria crocosarca (B. & Br.) Cooke. 
This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in the 
Fungi of Ceylon as “ Trypethelium crocosarca. Croceum 
pulvinatum, contextu concolori ; peritheciis nigris, ostiolis 
immersis ; sporidiis fusiformibus multisepta tis. On wood. 
Forming little pulvinate masses, J-| line wide, saffron yellow, 
’ dotted where the ostiola open ; substance of the same colour ; 
sporidia *0015 long by *0005, with twelve or more septa ; 
paraphyses linear.” The type in Herb. Kew was marked 
Mdogramma crocosarca by Berkeley. Cooke, on finding the 
specimen under this name in Herb. Kew, published another 
description under the name of Thyridaria crocosarca in Gre- 
villea, XX., p. 83. His description is “ Erumpent. Perithecia 
saffron colour, mealy, cæspitose, 2-6 together, often con- 
fluent, on a narrow stroma, pierced at the apex, forming 
clusters 2 mm. long. Asci clavate, octosporous. Sporidia 
fusiform, 7-11-septate, pale, not constricted, 40 X 12 [x, with 
linear paraphyses.” 
