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pErcH : 
albescens constitiiente emersa, minutissima, atra, ovalia, in 
ostioliim aciitum carbonaceum excnrrentia, cæterum subs- 
tantia minute vesiculosa. Asci tetra spori, sporidiis ovalibus 
utrinque obtusis, polo inferior! crasse caudato, 18 ^ longa 
(quorum 10 ^ appendicem ipsam spectant), 8-10 ^ lata.” 
In Herb. Kew is a specimen ex Herb. Cesati. The peri- 
thecia are black, globose, up to 0*3 mm. diameter, furnished 
with a cylindric, or slightly attenuated, ostiolum, up to 
0*2 mm. high and O’l mm. diameter. A thin, white layer of 
mycelium overlies the perithecia, and through this the ostiola 
project. The perithecia are free below. The specimen 
examined was too ripe to show asci, and I am therefore 
unable to confirm Cesati’s statement that they are four- 
spored. But the spores are black-brown, oval, apex some- 
what papillate, base truncate, 20-28 x 9-12 [a ; they possess 
at first a hyaline appendage, of which some remnant occa- 
sionally persists in the herbarium specimen. 
The perithecia and the white mycelial layer agree with 
Cesati’s description, but the spore measurement is so different 
that one might suppose that this was not the species examined 
by him. It may be suggested that the published measurement, 
9/500 mm., should be 19/500 mm. ; allowing 10 ^ for the 
appendage, this would give a length agreeing with the dimen- 
sions found. As it stands, the length of the spore is less 
than the breadth, if the length of the appendage be 
deducted. The appendage, however, is certainly more than 
10 ^ long. 
Following Sordaria sarawacensis, Cesati described Sordaria 
punctiformis, found on dung on Pedrutalagala, Ceylon. It was 
“ Perithecia minutissima in subiculo crustaceo albicante, 
ova ta, glabra, ostiola vix conspicuo ; contextu grosse vesi- 
culoso. Sporidia late ellipsoidea, fusca, simplicia, gutta 
centrali, 16 X 14 [x, ecaudata (an primitus ?).” Asci were 
not seen. In Saccardo, Sylloge, I., p. 247, this is listed as 
Hypocopra punctiformis. But in his remarks on this species, 
Cesati added : “ Calvities peritheciorum in nostro fungillo 
ex senescent! ejus ætate peti posset ” ; this would appear to 
negative the supposition that the species is Hypocopra, 
though he compared it to Hypocopra discospora Fck. 
