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Simblum. 

 Simblum periphragmoides Klotzsch. Recorded for Ceylon as 

 Simblum gracile Berk, by Berkeley in Hooker's Lond. Jour, 

 of Botany, V., p. 534, and VI. (1847), p. 512 ; and by 

 Berkeley and Broome, under the same name, in Fungi of 

 Ceylon, No. 702. 



Peradeniya, August, 1844 (Gardner) ; 1854 (Thwaites). 

 Fairly frequent at Peradeniya. 



Pharus. • 



Pharus gen. nov. Receptaculum stalked ; stalk dividing 

 above into arms, which normally unite at the apex ; 

 glebiferous layer borne solely on the arms, and consisting of 

 numerous plicate processes and plates, perpendicular to 

 the arm, closely packed together, and presenting a granular 

 outer surface, similar to that of Clautriavia. 

 Pharus Gardner! (Berk.). Lysurus Gardneri Berk., Hooker's 

 Lond. Jour. Bot., V., p. 535, and VI. (1847), p. 512. 

 Lysurus (Desmaturus) Gardneri Schlect., Lmnsea, 31 (1861- 

 62), p. 180. Colus Gardneri (Berk.) Ed. Fischer, Vers, e 

 Syst. Uebers., p. 77 (1886), and Sacc, Sylloge, VII., p. 21. 

 Lysurus Gardneri Berk., in Lloyd, Sjaiopsis of the known 

 Phalloids. Not Lysurus Gardneri Berk., in Cleland and 

 Cheel, Notes on Australian Fungi, No. 2, Jour. Proc. Roy. 

 Soc. N. S. W., XLIX., p. 204 ; LL, p. 364. 



Peradeniya, 1835 (Watson) ; (Gardner) ; July, 1868 

 (Thwaites) ; June, 1906 ; July, 1907 ; May, 1909 ; July, 

 1909; November, 1914; May, 1918. 



Aseroe. 



Aseroe rubra La Bill. Recorded as Aseroe zeylanica Berk, by 

 Berkeley in Hooker's Lond. Jour, of Botany, V., p. 535, and 

 VI. (1847), p. 512 ; and under the same name by Berkeley 

 and Broome in Fungi of Ceylon, No. 701. " On the ground, 

 4,000-5,000 feet, Gardner, Thwaites." 



Dunsinane, Pundaluoya, August, 1907. Hakgala, Septem- 

 ber, 1908 ; August, 1909, &c. Bandarawela, December, 

 1907. Ythanside, June, 1911 . Fairly common above 4,000 

 feet, both in the jungle and on estates among tea. 



Aseroe arachnoidea Fischer. Peradeniya, June, 1905. 



