L , L ) 1 , rKTf'Tl : THE FUNGI 



and drawings (chiefly the latter), and the specimens were 

 immature. Among Ceylon fungi this can be paralleled by 

 ArmiUaria rhodomala. B. & Br., which is an immature Pholiota. 



The length of stalk of ArmiUaria eurhiza is probably an 

 error, since 5 centimetres would scarcely call to mind Colly- 

 bia radicata, and in describing Collybia sparsibarbis, with a 

 stalk 10 centimetres long, Berkeley states that it differs from 

 A. eurhiza in the absence of a long root. The rugose pileus 

 is a common feature of specimens developed in the wet weather. 

 It may be noted that Berkeley's specimen was the ringed 

 form with a black rooting base, not with an equal stalk like 

 those figured on PL IX. 



The description of Lentinus cartilagineus is remarkable for 

 the fact that Berkeley recognized what has been overlooked 

 by subsequent describers, viz., that the agaric has a universal 

 veil. The silky pileus is an inaccuracy due to the extreme 

 attenuation of this veil. It is difficult to understand how it 

 could be described as "gregarious, rising from a common base,'' 

 unless by some extraordinary chance Gardner found two or 

 more examples growing from one comb. This has never 

 occurred to me except in the case of the ArmiUaria form. 



The figure of Collybia sparsibarbis which was sent to Berkeley 

 is decorated on the margin of the pileus with a few wavy 

 pencil marks. They do not suggest that the margin was 

 hairy, and were probably only intended by the draughtsman 

 to indicate a few broken fibrils. The pileus had evidently 

 ■ inly a tliin cartilaginous coat, and is therefore apparently 

 striate ; the gills (in the figure) are free. An examination of 

 the herbarium Bpecimen shows that it is cartilaginous and 

 smooth up in the margin, and that the stalk is " pnemorsus " 

 iuse it has been cut oft just below the commencement of 

 tin' black rooting base. The bulb at the base of the stem is 

 abnormal, though it is included also in the description of 

 Flam mn In Junseana. 



Holtennann's description (not his figure) applies to the 

 Ceylon specimen* except that the pileus is not truly villous. 



