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Geaster. 



Geaster plicatus Berk. No. 4471, Pemdeniya, December, 1914. 

 No. 4593, Hakgala, May, 1913. This species was collected 

 by Thwaites, No. 1007, and was recorded by Berkeley and 

 Broome in Fungi of Ceylon, No. 706, as G. Bnjantii. The 

 figure which accompanied the gathering was labelled by 

 Berkeley Geaster Bryantii, with the alternative name 

 Geaster Thivaitesii B. & Br. A description under the latter 

 name, by Massee, appeared in Saccardo, VII., p. 471. The 

 figure is peculiar in showing a stout pedicel, 7 mm. 

 diameter. 



Geaster Bryantii Berk. A single specimen. No. 5573, collected 

 at Horagama, in 1908, appears to be referable to this 

 species. It has the general appearance of G. plicatus, but 

 the exoperidium is more divided and more deflexed. The 

 pedicel is stout, and the base of the endoperidium concave, 

 so that the pedicel is socketed in the base. It lacks the 

 radial grooves of G. jjUcaiUiS. The wall of the endoperidium, 

 at the margin of the concave disc, is vertical, scarcely 

 grooved. 



Geaster Archeri Berk. No. 2517, Peradeniya, October, 1907 : 

 det. Lloyd. No. 2621, Peradeniya, July, 1908. No. 3323, 

 Peradeniya, December 1911. Lloyd (Letter 19) states: 

 " These specimens present a new character in Geaster 

 Archeri. The endoperidium is scurfy, ' asperate ' ; indeed, 

 if it had a pedicel it would be Geaster asper." 



Geaster triplex Jungh. No. 2618, Peradeniya, August, 1908. 

 No. 2654, Hakgala (jungle), September, 1908. No. 2656, 

 Kotagala, September, 1908. No. 2957, Peradeniya, June, 

 1909. No. 3908, Hakgala, Januarj^ 1914. No. 3992, Pera- 

 deniya, December, 1913. No. 5572, Hakgala, December, 

 1917. 



The following note on a Ceylon gathering made in 1906 was 

 published by Lloyd in Mycological Notes, No. 26, p. 339 : — 



" Among some Geasters recently received from the 

 Botanical Garden, Peradeniya, Ceylon, were some small 

 specimens of Geaster triplex with a scaly exoperidium 



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