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At first shaggy or strigose with pale brown fascicles of 

 hairs, bgcoming glabrous or nearly so, especially towards 

 the top. In 2146 the old specimens are adprcssed silky, the 

 young specimens strigose ; Massee referred this gathering 

 to C. vernicosus. It is frequently found on decaying 

 Ma,ngo stones. 



SpJiserobolus. 



Sphserobolus stellatus Tode. Hakgala, fairly frequent. 

 Pattipola. 



Sphaerobolus rubidus B. & Br. On elephant's dung, Nuwara 

 Eliya, Thwaites 312 ; Hakgala, April, 1907. Re-described, 

 Ann. Perad., IV., p. 63. 



Lycoperdace^. 



Podaxon. 



Podaxon pistillaris Fr. In " Monograph of the Genus 

 Podaxis " (Jour, of Botany, 1890, p. 76) Massee recorded 

 for Ceylon Podaxis axata, citing a specimen said to have been 

 sent by Gardner. It was not enumerated by Berkeley in 

 the published list of Gardner's fungi, nor by Berkeley and 

 Broome in the Fungi of Ceylon. 



There is a specimen of P. pistillaris in the Peradeniya 

 herbarium, from Mannar, collected by Trimen in February, 

 1890, and it has been recently collected at Trincomalee 

 (No. 3230, September, 1910). It is reported to be common 

 in the dry sandy districts after or during the rains of the 

 north-east monsoon. 



Tylosioma. 



Tylostoma Mussooriense P. Henn. Thwaites 1008 was a 

 Tylostoma, which Berkeley and Broome listed in Fungi 

 of Ceylon, No. 711, as Tulostoma exasperatum. The speci- 

 mens in Herb. Peradeniya have strongly verrucose 

 spores, 4-5 ^ diameter, and a circular, barely projecting 

 mouth. They appear to be T. Mussooriense, not T. 

 exasperatum. 



This species has not been collected again in Ceylon. 



