OK THE PUNOI OF CETLON. 507 



gills ventricose, attenuated behind, approximate, or in the variety 

 much broader and rounded behind; spores subglobose, '0003' long. 



In no, 745* the edge is not appendiculate, 



46. A, (Lepiota) manicatus, B. 4- Br. in Linn. Trans, xxvii. 

 p. 150, tab. 33h (no. 691 cum icone). 



On the ground. Peradeniya, July 1868, 



47. A. (Lepiota) myxodictyon, B. 4" Sr. Pileo hemisphserico 

 umbrino muco concolori reticulato camoso ; stipite a^quali solido 

 albo deorsum fibrilloso; cortina spongiosa ; lameUis falciformibus 

 approximatis albidis (no. 793 cum icone). 



On the ground. Nov. 1868. 



Pileus 2^ inches across, convex, broadly and very obtusely umbonate, 

 dark umber, clothed with a network of similarly coloured mucus ; 

 flesh thick, reddish beneath the cuticle ; stem 2^ inches high, 6 lines 

 across, solid, nearly white, clothed above with a spongy ring, 

 fibrillose below; gills | inch broad, sickle-shaped, approximate, 

 slightly tinged like the flesh with red. 



Allied to A, ffliodermuSy Fr. 



48. A. (Lepiota) euconiatus, JS. ^ Br. Pileo convcxo camoso 



albo pulvere vinoso obsito estriato ; stipite sursum attenuate albo 

 pulvemlento farcto; lamellis veutricosis postice rotundatis remotis 

 (no. 818 cum icone). 



On rotten wood. Peradeniya, Nov. 1868. 



Pileus 3 inches or more across, convex, covered with little patches of vi- 

 nous dust ; stem 4 inches high, i inch thick, attenuated upwards, pul- 

 verulent like the pileus, stuffed, sometimes rooting ; ring not distinct 

 from the meal of the stem; gills slightly ventricose, J inch wide ; 

 spores oblong, •00015-"0002' long. 



"Fle&h thick, except towards the margin, white ; the white inner 

 substance of the stem continued into the obtuse apex. Spores 

 white ; but there is a close affinity with A, cretaceus. Some- 

 times part of the stem is naked, sometimes the whole is mealy 

 and less distinctly stuffed; 



49. A. (Lepiota) granulosus, Batsch, (No. 1149 cum icone.) 



On earth, in flower-pots. June 1869. 



A minute form clothed with red granules. Spores '0002' long. 



No. 901 (cum icone) Jan. 186t), is a larger form, with stem and 

 pileus more or less clothed with brownish granules, the gills 

 sharply rounded behind, and one of an intermediate size, with 

 the granules darker and conspicuous at the base of the stem as 

 well as pileus. 



No. 902 (cum icone) comprises two vnrielics, one with cine- 



