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doubtfully by Cesati, collected by Beccari at Nuwara Eliya. 
The name was changed by Saccardo (Sylloge, IV., p. 614) to 
Grajphium ohsoletum. There are no specimens in Herb. Kew, 
British Museum, or Peradeniya. 
212. — Oidium simile Berk. 
Oidium simile was described by Berkeley in Hooker’s 
London Journal of Botany (1845), p. 310, as “ Effusa, sub- 
membranacea, fulva ; hyphis ramosiusculis ; articulis ultimis 
globosis.” The type specimens were from Ohio. It was 
recorded from Ceylon in Fungi of Ceylon, 896, with the 
information that it occurred also in Ohio, Cuba, and the 
Nilgiris. In Saccardo it is listed as Oospora similis. 
Ceylon specimens form effused, thin patches up to 4 cm. 
long and 3 cm. broad, or larger by confluence ; they are orange, 
red-brown, or dark red-brown, with a fairly broad, white or 
yellowish, byssoid margin. The stroma is up to 0*3 mm. 
thick ; its basal part is fairly compact, and consists of loosely 
interwoven hyphæ, 3-4 (ji diameter ; the upper free ends of 
the h5^hæ bear the conidia, either terminally or on short 
lateral branches. The conidia are yellow-brown to dark 
brown, smooth, globose, 12-17 [r diameter, or pyriform, 
20 X 12-14 (X. 
The Ceylon species is a Hyphodenna. It differs from 
Berkeley’s figure and description of Oidium simile, and is 
evidently a different species. It may be known as Hypho- 
derma zeylanica. 
Hyphoderma zeylanica. Stroma eflusum, ad 4 cm. long., 
3 cm. lat., 0*3 mm. crass., aurantiacum, vel rufo-brunneum, 
margine albo vel flavescenti, byssoideo ; hyphis 3-4 pi diam. ; 
conidiis flavo-brunneis vel fusco-brunneis, levibus, globosis, 
12-17 [JL diam., vel pyriformibus, 20 X 12-14 
213. — Mucor Artocarpi B. & Br. 
This is evidently identical with RMzopus Artocarpi Rac., 
and will stand as RMzopus Artocarpi (B. & Br.) Rac. Bio- 
logical details of this species have been published by Sartory 
and Sydow in Annales Mycologici, XI., pp. 421-424, from 
specimens sent by C. F. Baker from the Philippines. It 
