ox THE FUNGI OF CEYLON. 501 



vexo subumbonato snlcato-striato albo maculis fuscis obsito ; stipite 

 clavato, annulo descendente ; lamellis angustis postice attenuatis 

 approximatis (u^* 1199, 887 cumiconibus). 



On the ground. Jan. July 1869, 



Pileus convex, slightly umbonate, f inch across, white, sulcate, spotted 

 with dark brown patches ; stem ^-1 inch high, reddish, smooth, cla- 

 vate, stuffed; ring narrow, descending j mycelium thread-like; gills 

 ^ line wide, attenuated behind, white, distant, approximate ; spores 

 oblong, -0002' long. 



No. 885 (cum icone), Peradeniya, Sept. Nov. 1869, is a plane 

 form with the stem 1^ inch high and nearly equal ; gills 1 line, 

 wide, pinkish ; spores -0002' long. 



No. 953 is a still taller form with a well-developed ring ; spores 



same length. 



la some respects resembles the last specieSj but the spores are 

 very different, 



24. A. (Lepiota) phlyctanodes, B. §- Br. Convexo obtuso car- 

 noso verrucoso, margine squamoso ; stipite aquali fibrilloso-farcto, 

 annulo^amplo descendente; lamellis ventricosis approximatis (no. 820, 



1173 cum iconibus). 

 On the ground or decaying vegetable matter. Peradeniya, Nov. 1868, 



June 1869. 

 Pileus 1-2 inches across, plano-convex, broadly umbonate or obtuse, 

 clothed above with reddish-brown erect warts, and towards the mar- 

 gin with fibrillose scales, flesh white with a slight pinkish tinge; 

 stem 2 inches high, 2 lines thick, stuffed with white fibres, reddish 

 within and without, slightly fibrillose; ring descending, ample; gills 

 ventricose, 1 line w ide, rounded behind, approximate ; spores ob- 

 liquely ovate, -0003' long. Mycelium fibrous. 



No. 1173* has the margin striate, and is cylindrical when young ; 

 stem slightly scaly toward the base. Gills not rounded behind. 

 We consider this a variety. 



25. A. (Lepiota) pseudo-granulosus, B. 4' ^f- Pil^o subcampa- 

 nulato estriato verrucis ercctis et pulvere obsito ; stipite clava^formi e 

 farcto cavo, annulo ample descendente ; lamellis candidis angustis 

 utrinque attenuatis (no. 823 cum icone). 



On the ground. Peradeniya, Nov. 1868. 



Pileus 1 inch across, white, clothed in the centre with upright mealy 

 warts, pulverulent towards the margin; stem U inch high, 1 line 

 thick in the centre, clavatc, stuffed, then hollow, white, pulverulent ; 

 ring ample, white, descending; gills narrow, subrcmote; spores 

 •0002' long. 



i-i:xN. jouim.— BOTAJ!^T, vol. xr. 2 u 



