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Trametes picta Berk, 



Hapugastenna, October, 1909 ; No. 2966 (det. Lloyd). 



Trametes straminea Pat. 



Peradeniya, March, 1917 ; No. 4992 (det. Lloyd). 



Trametes nubila Fr. 



Pitakande, Ambagamuwa, March, 1918; No. 5559 (det. 

 Lloyd). 



Trametes roseola Pat. 



Pallegodde, January, 1912 ; No. 3317 (det. Lloyd). 



Trametes Mueller! Berk. 



Peradeniya, July, 1908 ; No. 2733 (det. Lloyd). Pera- 

 deniya, December, 1911, No. 3302 (det. Lloyd). Both these 

 were included under Trametes laciinea Berk., in Ann. Perad., 

 VI., p. 140. I am unable to distinguish between these two 

 species. 



Dsedalea tenuis Berk. 



Peradeniya, August, 1912; No. 3554 (det. Lloyd). "A 

 thin form of Dsedalea flavida " (Lloyd). 



Dsedalea flavida Lev. 



Lloyd adopts this name for the species listed in Ann. Perad., 

 VI., p. 140, as Trametes ochroleuca. 



Hydnacese. 



Hydnum fragile n. sp. 



Mesopodial, with a stalk up to 6 cm. high, 1 * 5 cm. diameter, 

 expanding above into overlapping pilei ; or forming rosettes 

 up to 40 cm. diameter, arising from a central tubercular mass ; 

 white, becoming pale ochraceous. Pilei orbicular or flabelli- 

 form, up to 15 cm. broad, 6 cm. long, 4 mm. thick, horizontal 

 or suberect, sometimes infundibuliform, brittle, obscurely 

 concentrically zoned, surface rough with warts and ridges 

 radially arranged ; margin thick when fresh, minutely 

 tomentose ; flesh white, with translucent bands, not cartila- 

 ginous. Aculei short, about 1 mm. long, conical. Spores 

 white, globose or oval, 3-5 X 3 jj.. On the ground, Pera- 

 deniya, December, 1913, &c. ; type. No. 3994 in Herb. 

 Peradeniya. 



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