ox THE FUNGI OF CETLON. 547 



Var. pileo squamis basi fibrilloso-radiantiljus ; stipite farcto demiun 

 cavo deorsum brunneo fibrilloso (no. 1155, cum icone). July 1869. 



242. A. (Psalliota) didactylus, B. <^'Br. Pileo conveso carnoso 

 piloso-squamoso squamis superioribus erectis ; stipite bulboso deor- 

 sum floccoso-maculato candido penetrante annulo ami)lo descendeute 

 duplici; lamellis utrinque attenuatis (no. 706, cum icone). 



On the ground. Peradeniya, July 1868. 



Pileus 4 inches across, convex, fleshy, clothed with pilose scales, of 

 which those in the centre are erect, brownish ; stem 5 inches high, i 

 inch thick, bulbous, attenuated upwards, stuffed, sunk above into the 

 flesh of the pileus, clothed with transverse patches of white flocci ; 

 ring large, superior, reaching halfway down, double; gills mode- 

 rately broad, attenuated at either end, brown. 



Eesembling A. arvensis in the double ring, A. cretacens in the 

 penetrating stem. 



243. A. (Psalliota) spilockphalus, B. 8f Br. in Linn. Tr. xxvii. 

 p. 152. (No. 698, cum icone.) 



On the ground. 



Inside of the stem consisting of loose intricate threads ; spores -0002' 



long. 



244. A. (Psalliota) trachodes, B. in Lond. Journ. vi. p. 4S7 ; 



Gardn. (no. 64, cum icone); Thwaites (no. 911, cum icone). 

 On the ground in shady places. Peradeniya, July 1844, Jan. 1869. 



245. A. (Psalliota) lasiophrys, B. 8,- Br. Pileo conico lateritio 

 squamulis floccosis ubique obsito, stipite concolori subacquali annulo- 

 que fibrillosis ; lamellis pallidis ventricosis postice rotuudatis (no. 913, 



cura icone). 



On the ground. Peradeniya, Jan. 1869. 



Pileus 3i inches across, broadly conical, fleshy, thin towards the mar- 

 gin, clothed with little, brick-red, pilose scales ; stem 3 inches high, \ 

 - thick in the middle, truncate at the base, stuffed, clothed with red 

 fibrilla," ring fibriUose ; gUls 3^ lines broad, pale purple-brown, ven- 

 tricose, rounded behind j spores '0002' long. Whole plant dark red 

 when dry. 



246. A. (Psalliota) hemilasius, B. 8fBr. Pileo carnoso convexo 



gulari 



annulo ascendente amplo lacerate 



utrinque attenuatis remotis cinereis (no. 912, cum icone). 

 On the ground. Peradeniya, Jan. 1869. 

 Pileus 4 inches across, convex, fleshy ; flesh white, slightly stained ; 



stem 5 inches high, nearly 1 inch thick in the middle, swollen and 



