70 FETCH : 



browiiish-yellow, septate, branched, varying from 3 to 10 jx 

 in diameter. The spores are pale brownish-yellow, or yellow, 

 globose, minutely warted, 3 '5 to 4 (x diameter, and not 

 pedicellate. 



In 1907 a gathering was made at Peradeniya of a species 

 which was supposed to be Bovistella citrina. Lloyd, in 

 acknowledging specimens of this gathering in letter No. 19, 

 wrote : " Lycoperdon cervmwm, in the sense of Berkeley's 

 Ceylon determination, not of his South American, which is 

 not a Lycoperdon." The gathering (No. 2515) had un- 

 fortunately proved to be a mixture, and the only specimens 

 of Bovisla cervina had been sent, the remainder of the 

 gathering in Herb. Peradeniya being all Bovistella citrina. 

 The incident may serve to illustrate the similarity in 

 general appearance between the two species. 



In a recent collection, No. 5803 in Herb. Peradeniya, 

 which is immature, the specimens are globose, or depressed 

 globose, up to 4 cm. diameter, fawn-coloured, or brownish- 

 fawn, above, passing into brownish-yellow at the sides. 

 The cortex is about 0*5 mm. thick, fleshy and yellow 

 internally, and covered with a layer of interwoven, ad- 

 pressed fibrils, which sometimes splits into small, polygonal, 

 flat warts or scales. A stout, rooting mycelial cord runs 

 from the centre of the rounded base. When wet it may 

 eaf i)y be passed over as Bovistella citrina, as happened in the 

 gathering No. 2515. I leave this species under Berkeley's 

 name, as that is otherwise unoccupied. 



Bovistella. 



Bovistella aspera Lev. On bare ground in flower beds and on 

 patana (grass land), Hakgala, common. No. 2322 (in part), 

 April, 1907 ; No. 2377, April, 1907 (det. Lloyd) ; No. 2644, 

 September, 1908 ; Nos. 4155, 4156, September, 1914 ; 

 No. 4572, May, 1912 ; No. 5568, December, 1917. 



Bovistella scabra Lloyd. With the preceding, but less common . 

 No. 2322 (in part), April, 1907 (det. Lloyd) ; No. 5569, 

 December, 1917 ; No. 5571, April, 1917, all from Hakgala. 

 This appears to run hito the preceding species in Ceylon. 



