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all in its very flexible pileus, coarser pubescence and redder 
tint. 
*S. fuliginosum, Fr. Ep. p. 553. 
On fallen branches. Forests at base of Adam's Peak, 
Ceylon. 
*Clavaria miniata, Berk. in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. 
vol. 2, p. 416.— Gardner, n. 30. 
On the ground in open places. Peradenia, Ceylon. June, 
1844. 
The colour in the Ceylon plant is perhaps paler, but there 
is no essential difference. The clavulæ appear to be always 
obtuse. 
*Lycoperdon fucatum, Lév. in Voy. Bonite. tab. 140, f. 3. 
— Gardner, n. 16. 
On old trees. Hautane. June, 1844. 
When young pure white, with a slight tinge of pink, pyri- 
form, splitting from the vertex. The sporidia are not formed 
in the specimens before me, therefore I eannot be.perfectly 
Certain in my determination of the species. 
*Lycoperdon saccatum, Fl. Dan. t. 1139.— Gardner, n. 9. 
In shady places. Peradenia. May, 1844. 
The specimens, though numerous, are not quite mature. 
Their colour is a beautiful pale tawny, precisely like that of 
a Lycoperdon gathered near Paris by M. Roussel, which he 
refers to L. candidum. "There are no warts, but the whole 
cuticle, which is very thin, is clothed with mealy down. 
The peridium varies from lentiform with a cylindrical stem 
rs Sometimes there is a strong rooting _ 
*Bovista cervina, Berk. in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. 
vol. 9, p. 447.—Gardner, n. 17. — 
On the ground. Peradenia, Ceylon. . June, 1844. 
_ When young, of a pure white. The Ceylon specimens are 
|. attached to the ground by numerous branching fies, and 
.. Rot adnate by a large portion of the base, as in Mr. Darwin’s 
Plant from Patagonia. - T S , 
