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echinatum Pers. (p. 704), but on page 711 he listed L. echinu- 

 laMm B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 722, and wrote at the 

 end of the description " (= L. echinellum B. & Br. m Herb. 

 Berk.)." 



I was unable to find Berkeley's specimen of L. echinula- 

 tum B. & Br. in Herb. Kew. Nor does there appear to be 

 any specimen " L. echinellum " in Herb. Berk. Berkeley's 

 labels are " Lye. echinatum var. echinellum," and the 

 specimens are consequently Fungi of Ceylon, No. 721. 

 The type of L. echinulalum is apparently missing from Herb. 

 Kew. Massee's description of L. echinulalum is chiefly a 

 translationof Berkeley and Broome's. I take the specimens, 

 Thwaites 194, in Herb. Kew and Herb. Peradeniya to be 

 Berkeley and Broome's var. echinellum. It is not related 

 to L. echinatum, and may stand as a species, L. echinellum 

 B. & Br. The specimens in Thwaites 194 are turbinate, 

 almost sessile, or with long stalks, from 1*5 cm. high, and 

 the same diameter, to 3 cm. high, 1*2 cm. diameter above. 

 In a recent collection, No. 2137, Peradeniya, October, 1906, 

 they are more regular, ovoid or turbinate, shortly stalked, 

 up to 3 X 2 cm., and 2*5 cm. high, red-brown, with a 

 cortex of rather long and acute red-brown spines, often 

 connivent in conical groups. The cortex is deciduous, 

 separating in large patches, and leaving the surface tomen- 

 tose. In young specimens the gleba is yellow, but becomes 

 yellowish-olive when old. The sterile base is small, and 

 woolly rather than cellular, limited by a distinct diaphragm. 

 The capillitium threads are yellow-brown, regular, some- 

 times closely flexuose, firm-walled, septate, 3-4 \j. diameter. 

 The spores are globose, yellow-brown, minutely spinulose, 

 3-^ ^ diameter. The recent collection grew on a rubbish 

 heap, arising from white cords of myceUum. 



It would appear that Massee examined Thwaites 194 for 

 his description of L. echinulalum, as he describes the sterile 

 base as dense and indistinctly cellular. 



Lycoperdon fucatum Lev. was recorded for Ceylon by Berkeley 

 in his enumeration of the species collected by Gardner, and 

 Lycoperdon rugosum B. & C. was given for Ceylon in Cuban 

 Fungi, No. 504, but neither of these records was included 



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