492 i DECADES OF FUNGI. 
On wood in forests. Hautane Range, Ceylon. July, 
1844. 
There is a slight difference between the Ceylon and 
Philippine plant; but I consider both, notwithstanding, the 
same species. In the Philippine plant the colour is darker, 
inclining to brown, the furrows on the pileus more distant, 
and the stem more or less naked. In the Ceylon fungus the 
pileus is of a beautiful umber, more closely striate, and the 
stem clothed with coarse velvety pubescence. The diffe- 
rences in colour, and in the coating of the stem, I believe, 
arise from age. I think it would be very improper to make 
two species without an opportunity of examining fresh 
specimens, and the great changes which take place in this 
genus in the appearance of the stem, suggest extreme caution 
in the erection of species. The stem in the drawing 1S 
represented as nearly black. : 
160. L. revelatus, n. sp.; confluenti-cæspitosus ; pileo 
depresso crassiusculo e velutino glabrato ochraceo; stipite 
elongato extus spongioso; lamellis angustis decurrentibus 
integris.— Gardner, n. 117. : 
On decaying wood. Point de Galle, Ceylon. April, 
1844. 
Confluenti-cespitose; pilei unequal 23 inches across, 
depressed, flexuous, rather thick, ochraceous, clothed at first 
with dense velvety down, then naked, but slightly pulveru- 
lent not virgate; margin scarcely involute, except in 
young plant, when the pileus is infundibuliform. | 
Stems connate 24 inches high, nearly } thick, clothed 
. with spongy down, nearly equal, hard, and rigid. up 
. Gills erowded, narrow, entire, decurrent, slightly anasto- 
mosing behind. — 
161. L. subnudus, n. sp.; pileo subinfundibuliformi far- — 
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