DECADES OF FUNGI. _ 489 
Gills nearly black, ventricose adnexed. 
Allied to A. melaspermus, Bull. but not so convex, and 
differing in the rufous stem, and less fleshy pileus. It has 
somewhat the appearance of a dwarf smooth state of A. 
squamosus, : 
*A. sublateritius, Fr. Ep. p. 221.—Gardner, n. 89. 
On old wood. Hautane Range, Ceylon. Aug. 1844. 
*A, fascicularis, Huds.—Gardner, n. 45. 
On the ground in shady places attached to little bits of 
wood. Peradenia, Ceylon. June, 1844. 
À very small state of the species. 
*A. cernuus, Müll.—Gardner, n. 26. 
On the ground, and attached to dics Peradenia, Ceylon. 
June, 1844. 
The specimens, it should be observed, have the characters 
of A. cernuus, with the habit of A. stipatus. 
*A, papilionaceus, Bull.—Gardner, n. 4, and n. 54. var. 
On the ground. Hautane Range, Ceylon. July, 1845. 
The specimens appear not to have grown on dung, but on 
the bare soil. 
*A. campanulatus, L.—Gardner, n. 2. 
On the ground. Peradenia, Ceylon, June, 1844. 
*A. hiascens, Fr. A. striatus, Bull. t. 552. f. F. G.— 
Gardner, n. 95. 
On the ground. Peradenia, Ceylon. poem 1844. 
In the larger Ceylon specimen, the smooth portion above 
the furrows is tesselated from the cracking of the cuticle. 
*A. disseminatus, P.—Gardner, n. 61. 
On old wood. Peradenia, Ceylon. July, 1844. 
*Hygrophorus obrusseus, Fr. Ep. p. 331.— Gardner, n. 70. 
On the ground in woods. Ceylon. July, 1844. 
N.71 appears to be a nearly allied pure white vps 
which is.eaten by the natives. The specimens are unfortu- 
nately too much injured by mites to allow me to ne. + 
them accurately. — 
*Russula emetica, Fr. Ep. p. 357.— Gardner, n. 87. 
On the ground. Hautane, Ceylon. Aug. 1844. 
