282 FETCH : 



Claudopus repens n. sp. 



Resupinate, sessile, orbicular, up to 4 mm. diameter ; margin 

 white, tomentose ; hymenial surface pinkish-red ; gills few, 

 distant. Spores irregularly globose, nodular, with a stout 

 conical apiculus, 6-8 X 4-6 [i. 



On the under side of rotting logs, growing from white cords 

 of mycelium which spread out here and there into cobwebby 

 sheets. Hakgala, December, 1917 ; No. 5621 in Herb. 

 Peradeniya. 



Pluteus flavomarginatus n. sp. 



Pileus 2 cm, diameter, convex, sometimes slightly umbonate, 

 orange-red, sometimes with deeper crimson streaks radiating 

 from the centre, margin yellow. Gills white, then pink, 

 broad, somewhat ventricose, free. Stalk 3*5 cm. high, 2 mm. 

 diameter, yellow, glabrous, slightly tomentose at the base. 

 Spores pink, subglobose, 5-6 X 4-5 [>•. 



On dead wood, Hakgala, March 29, 1907, &c. 



Pholiota badia n. sp. 



Fasciculate. Pileus 7-20 cm. diameter, undulating, feebly 

 umbonate, bay -brown, rather darker in the centre, or yellow- 

 brown in the centre becoming palhd towards the margin, 

 glabrous, cuticle sometimes radially puckered, sometimes 

 splitting ; flesh white, thick (2*5 cm.) over the stalk, rapidly 

 thinning out, with a translucent, thick (5 mm.) brown cuticle, 

 which forms the total context over the outer third of the 

 pileus. Stalk 6-12 cm. long, 5-16 mm. diameter, equal, 

 innately longitudinally fibriUose, the outer layers spUtting, 

 solid, pallid becoming brownish, longitudinally ridged above 

 the ring ; ring ample, fragile, evanescent. Gills sinuato- 

 decurrent, moderately crowded, pallid, then feebly purple- 

 brown, narrow, attenuated outwards, edge irregularly crenate. 

 Spores dark yellow-brown in mass, pale yellow-brown when 

 magnified, oblong-oval, smooth, 9-14 X 5-7 f-. 



Growing from a cavity in the stem of Zanthoxylum Rhetsa, 

 Peradeniya, November, 9, 1917 ; July 4, 1921, &c. Type, 

 No. 5482 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



