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gleba purple-black. Spores purple -brown, spherical, 6-8 ^ 

 diameter, furnished with long acute spines, and reticulated 

 with narrow, often broken, bands. Dehiscence not observed. 

 No. 5237, Peradeniya, May, 1917. 



Henning's Sderotium tulgare var. novo^uineense would 

 appear, from the description, to be close to this. 



Scleroderma pseudostipitatum n. sp. Epigeal. EUipsoid, or 

 globose, up to 5 cm. diameter, pale ochraceous, sometimes 

 purplish when young, even, at first smooth, glabrous, the 

 outer layer subsequently splittmg into minute innate scales. 

 Usually stalked, the stalk up to 3 cm. high, irregular, lacu- 

 nose, often compressed, sometimes an irregular mass of the 

 same diameter as the head, arising from white masses of 

 mycelium, occasionally wanting. Cortex internally white, 

 becoming reddish when cut. Mass of spores olivaceous. 

 Spores brown, globose, 8-10 {jl diameter, verrucose with 

 coarse warts, which are sometimes united in lines forming a 

 broken reticulation. Hakgala, abundant. 



In one gathering. No. 2958, September, 1908, the spores 

 in some specimens have the warts produced into long spines, 

 united by a regular reticulation ; these spores measure 

 12-15 \x. In other respects the specimens do not differ from 

 the type. 



When mature, dehiscence occurs at the apex, the fungus 

 becoming a deep, stalked cup, filled with a powdery mass of 

 spores. 



Hymbnogastrace^. 



Lycogalopsis. 



Lycogalopsis zeylanica n. sp. Sessile, globose or elhpsoid, 

 7-10 mm. diameter, usually clustered, often angled by 

 mutual pressure, on or partly embedded in a white, tomen- 

 tose, compact basal layer. At first white, with a thin, white, 

 pruinose or tomentose outer coat, which sometimes splits 

 into areolse and usually disappears, leaving the peridium 

 buff, or pale ochraceous, or grayish-white, glabrous, shining. 

 Peridium thin, testaceous, sp fitting irregularly. Capillitium 

 profuse, of diverging, pale ochraceous, or almost white, 

 threads, extending from the base to the peridium ; threads 



