220 PBTCH : TRB KUNCl 



• xtiis cartilagmeo radice fusiformi : annulo e strato externo 

 orto evanescente : lamellis adnexis, albis arcuatis. ArmiUaria 

 mwcida proxima : habitus Collybice. radicatce similis. Pilous 

 !> cm. circ. latus : stipes 5 cm. altus, 1*3 cm. medio latus. 



Lentinus cartilagineus Berk. Decades of Fungi, No. 167. 



< irspitoso-gregarius, e communi basi enascens : pileo 

 albido subsericeo : stipitibus validis. contortis^ strato crasso, 

 cartilagineo-viscoso, in velum universale producto tectis, 

 intus spongiosis : lamellis integris, liberis, pallidis. 



K profunditate 1*30 m. sub terra erumpens in valle Thermi- 

 tum Ceylon (Gardner). — Pileus 5 cm. latus : stipes 20-26 cm. 

 longus. Forte novi generis feypus. 



Collybia sparsibarbis B. and Br. Linn. Trans. 27 (1870), 

 l». 151. 



Ksculentus : pileo carnoso fortissime umbonato convexo 

 virgato-striato marginem versus floccis liberis aspero, umbone 

 gtabro fusco, carne alba : stipite valido subradicante, praemor- 

 so. basi marginato bulboso hie illic sulcato : lamellis angustiori- 

 bus postice rotundato-adnexis pallidis. (Thwaites, Ceylon, 

 No. 697). 



"On the ground. Peradeniya. July and August, 1868. 

 Pileus 5.1 inches across, deep brown in the centre, then paler : 

 stem white (including the bulb, half of which is buried in the 

 soil), 4 inches high, § inch thick half way up ; gills } inch 

 broad, rounded behind, free." 



" Evidently nearly allied to Agaricus eurhizus Berk. Loud. 



• lorn. Bot., 1847. p. 483 (Gardner No. 43), but differing in the 

 hairy margin of the pileus and the absence of a long root and 

 ring. The Himalayan A. napiprs Berk, with its lone root, 

 is al«> very nearly related." 



Agaricus (PPutwu) Rajwp RoHennann. 



In " Ifykologisohe Untersaehungen * (1898) lloltermann 

 figures an agaric on a termite comb, natural size. It is 3 em. 

 high, with a fusiform stem S mm. ctiam. in the widest part, 

 the pileus is JHJ cm. diam.. split almost to the centre, um- 

 boaaAe the origin <>f the stalk is obscure. 



