484 DECADES OF FUNGI. 
*A. nudus, Bull. t. 439. Gardner, n. 31. à 
In damp shady places on the ground.  Peradenia, Ceylon. 
June, 1844. 
The Ceylon specimens are mostly umbonate. 
*A. homotrichus, Berk. in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. 
Vol. 2, p. 410.— Gardner, n. 10. 
Growing on roots of plants. Peradenia, Ceylon. May, 
1844. 
The Ceylon specimens are exactly the plant of Uitenhage. - 
It appears from the drawing that the pileus is greyish when 
fresh, and the gills purplish. 
*A. umbelliferus, L. Gardner, n. 37, et (monstrosus) 
n. 35, 
On the ground. Hautane Range, Ceylon. June, 1844, 
and n. 35 on old wood. a 
The specimens are robust and highly cespitose, but differ 
in no assignable character from the European species; 
n. 35 is a curious state in which the stems are confluent, 
and form one solid mass. 
*A. dryinus, P. Gardner, n. 88. Ceylon. 
Of this I have seen no specimen, but the drawing exactly 
accords with A. dryinus. 
148. A. (Pleurotus) versiformis, n. sp.; hygrophanus albus ; 
pileo membranaceo ex integro umbilicato spathulato; stipite 
brevi glabro ; lamellis latiusculis postice attenuatis decurren- 
tibus interstitiis rugulosis. 
In forests on mossy branches. Talagalla. Feb. 1846. 
. Varying extremely in form, entire and umbilicate, infun- 
dibuliform, flabelliform, spathulate, or almost linear, hygro- 
phanous thin and membranaceous. 
. Stem short, smooth, or rarely (as also the base of the 
pileus) sprinkled with a few strigose fascicles, grooved ied 
cartilaginous when dry. = 
Gills moderately broad, attenuated behind, and very 
decurrent. m um 
.  . Interstices slightly wrinkled. - P a 
xm Resembling A. petalodes, but not very closely allied. de ue 
