490 DECADES OF FUNGI. 
156. Marasmius sulciceps, n. sp.; pileo membranaceo 
depresso umbilicato rufo-pallescente e centro sulcato ; stipite 
compresso cartilagineo velutino-pruinoso basi substrigoso; 
lamellis ventricosis secedenti-liberis rufis; sporis ferrugineo- 
ochraceis.— Gardner, n. 38. 
On old wood. Hautane, Ceylon. June, 1841. 
Pileus umbilicate, depressed, rufous becoming pallid, 
strongly sulcate almost from the centre. 
Stem compressed, externally cartilaginous substrigose at 
the base, then velvety, pruinose at the apex. 
Gills ventricose, distant, nearly free, but in very depressed 
individuals subdecurrent; interstices even. 
. Spores ochre-red, obliquely ovate, subapiculate. 
This species has just the appearance of a small specimen 
of M. peronatus, but has the spores of a Cortinarius. 
157. M. fulviceps, n. sp.; sub-cæspitosus, pileo convexo- 
plano levi fulvo-ferrugineo; stipite elongato sub-glabro 
fulvo; basi fulvo-strigosa; lamellis emarginatis albis.— 
Gardner, n. 73. 
On decayed wood, leaves, sticks, &c. Hautane Range, 
Ceylon. os 1844. 
Pileus 3 an inch or more across, convex, at length plane 
or depressed, of a beautiful tawny, clothed v with a delicate 
bloom, even, not striate. 
Stem thread-like, 2-3 inches high, smooth, or slightly 
pruinose tawny, like the pileus, fixed at the base by tawny 
strigose down. 
Gills numerous, white, tawny brown when dry, emar- 
ginate. 
nes to M. ferrugineus, Berk.; but more especially to 
M. pyrrhocephalus, from which it differs in its more numerous 
. emarginate gills, smooth stem, and the tawny sem dm * 
at the base. 
158. Heliomyces Leveillianus, n. Sp.; fioi insi- — 
cm titius pileo e convexo campanulato umbonato sulcato cas- 
. . taneo; lamellis - paucis - subconcoloribus adnexis; St! sd ; = 
= = fistuloso eire. one, n. 72. E 
