NEW YORK 



Additions to Ceylon Fungi (II.). 



BY 



T. FETCH, B.A., B.Sc. 



HYMENOMYCETiE . 



Agaricaceas. 

 Clitocybe sordida n. sp. 



Pileus up to 4" 5 cm. diameter, infundibuliform, or in small 

 examples almost plane and depressed in the centre, margin at 

 first incurved, gray-brown or gray, densely covered with 

 minute black particles, or black-brown in the centre and 

 radially streaked with black-brown, margin at first white. 

 Stalk up to 4 cm. high, 4 mm. diameter, equal or slightly 

 inflated at the base, stuffed, livid brownish-gray with dark 

 brown fibrils and points. Gills white, or faintly cream, 

 crowded, narrow, decurrent, terminating on the stem at a 

 definite line, which is dark brown in old specimens. Spores 

 white, oval, 5 X 3 [k. Strong smell of meal. 



On the ground, sometimes connate at the base, Hakgala, 

 December, 1917 ; No. 5592 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Mycena longiseta v. H. 



On bark of a jak tree, Peradeniya, December, 1914 ; 

 No. 4378 in Herb. Peradeniya, &c. 



The hairs on the pileus in the Ceylon specimens are at first 

 hyaline, then yellow-brown. 



Omphalia straminea n. sp. 



Pileus up to 5 mm. diameter, broadly convex, or truncated 

 conoid, 2 mm. high, umbilicate, straw-coloured, appearing 

 striate when moist, minutely squamulose. Stalk up to 2 cm. 

 high, 0'75 mm. diameter, expanded towards the apex, pale 

 csl straw-coloured to whitish, smooth, stuffed. Gills distant, 

 broad, arched, decurrent, white. Spores white, oblong-oval, 

 6-8 X 3 jjL. Cystidia scanty, fusiform to flask-shaped, 

 25-30 X 6[i. 



Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Vol. VII., Pait IV., June, 1922. 

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