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streaks, or with the outer layer split into small upwardly- 

 directed, dark gray, fibrillose scales ; base white and slightly 

 tomentose. 



Gills narrow, crowded, pallid, strongly attenuated outwards, 

 sinuato-adnexed ; edge usually irregular. 



Spores white, oval or subglobose, 5-6 X 3-4 [i. 



On the ground among grass, sometimes in a ring : often 

 connate. Peradeniya, 28-8-06 ; 9-907 ; 15-8-10, &c. 



74. — Armillaria dasypepla Berk. 



Agaricus {Armillaria) dasypeplus Berk., Hooker's London 

 Journal of Botany, VI., p. 482. 



Agaricus {Lepiota) dasypeplus Berk., Joum. Linn. Soc, XL, 

 p. 506. 



Pholiota dasypepla (Berk.) Cooke, Saccardo, Sylloge Fun- 

 gorum, IX., p. 93. 



This species was sent to Berkeley by Gardner, and was 

 described as follows : — 



" Caespitosa ; pileo e convexo-expanso demum depresso 

 sinuatoque tomentoso squamuloso fulvo : stipite subsequali 

 annuloque fugaci tomentoso fulvis ; lamellis incamatis 

 purpurascentibus, postice sinuatis, dente affixis. 



" On dead wood, Hantane, Ceylon. Pileus 4 cms. latus, 

 densa lanugine obtectus, hie illic squamulosus ; stipes 2-5 cm. 

 longus, 4-6 mm. crassus. Affinis A. mellece sed bene distincta 

 ob naturam lanuginis, annulum fugacem atque lamellas 

 nitentes." 



In Saccardo, Sylloge Fungorum, IX., p. 93, Cooke states 

 that the spores are pale brown, 10-11 X 8 ^, and therefore 

 transfers it to Pholiota. 



Gardner's painting shows an infundibuliform fungus, 

 clustered, yellow-brown dotted with red-brown, margin at 

 first strongly inrolled, gills violet. The type specimens are 

 much damaged and eaten by insects ; the damage most 

 probably occurred when they were in process of drying, and, if 

 so, the description was based on the figure only. The annulus 

 referred to by Berkeley is apparently the termination of the 

 tomentum on the stem. 



