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have been removed for the purpose of reproduction, but as 

 the other figures which were reproduced were not removed, 

 that seems hardly probable. Berkeley's figure shows an 

 agaric , apparently with a viscid cuticle which extends in shreds 

 beyond the margin : the stalk is thickened below and black at 

 the base, where it is truncate, as though it had been cut short. 

 Berkeley's description states that the pileus is covered with a 

 glutinous veil and has an appendiculate margin ; and that the 

 stalk is rooting and transversely squamulose with fragments 

 of the ruptured veil. 



In the herbarium Gardner No. 51 is included with Gardner 

 No. 29 under Lepiota continua. But 29 bears the inscription 

 Lepiota continutis Nov. sp., written by Berkeley on Gardner's 

 label, while No. 51 has Agaricus continuus Berk, attached to 

 the sheet on a separate label, though in Berkeley's handwriting. 

 Apparently there has been some error in the labelling of No. 51 . 

 The two specimens in 51 have glabrous pilei, and to judge from 

 the grains of sand adhermg to them they were viscid when 

 moist ; their stalks are suddenly strongly inflated below. 

 But apparently neither of these specimens furnished the 

 figm-e reproduced by Berkeley. It would seem that the name 

 Agaricus continuus has been attached to these specimens at a 

 later date, because they had inflated bases like those of the 

 latter species. 



The only Ceylon agaric at present known which in any way 

 resembles the figure and specimens, is the species which grows 

 from termite nests. The latter has a rooting stalk which is 

 black below the ground level, and a cartilaginous cuticle, 

 viscid in wet weather, which sometimes extends in shreds over 

 the margin. The inflated base occurs in the form which was 

 named Collyhia sparsiharhis. This adds another name to the 

 already lengthy list of synonyms which refer to that species, 

 and as it is prior to Armillaria eurhiza Berk, it necessitates 

 another change of name. In " The Fungi of certain Termite 

 Nests " I referred this species to Volvaria, as it has pink spores, 

 a universal veil, and an adherent volva ; but Prof. F. von 

 Hohnel considers that it should be regarded as a rosy-spored 

 Collyhia. In general appearance it is certainly a Collybia 

 in most of its forms, and, as we have httle information 



