270 FETCH : 



From the texture of the fragments now available, the fungus 

 appears to be a Lentimis. The colour agi-ees with that view, 

 since there are several Ceylon Lentini which are at first violet, 

 but beconie brown when mature, e.g., L. Lecomtei, L. similis, 

 L. cstriattLs, &c. The stalks are too long for L. Lecomtei and 

 the pileus is not sulcate as in L. similis. But the abundant 

 spores in the herbarium specimens are pale brown, 4^8 X 3-5 ^, 

 and hence its reference to Lentinus is excluded. 



It is curious that Berkeley should have referred this species 

 to ArmiUaria and Lefiota, seeing that the gills are coloured, 

 and that there is an abundance of brown spores. Can it be 

 that continual poisoning has changed the colour of the spores ? 

 At present, the question of its exact position must be left 

 open until fresh specimens have been gathered. 



75.— Clitocybe scotodes (B. & Br. ) Fetch. 



A. {CoUyhia) scotodes B. & Br., Jour. Limi. Soc, XI., p. 522. 



Pileus up to 3 cm. diameter, broadly convex, grayish brown 

 in the centre, dark gray elsewhere, extreme margin almost 

 white, minutely radially rugose, hygrophanous. Flesh thin, 

 dark when moist. 



Stalk about 3 cm. long, 4 mm. diameter, stuffed then 

 hollow, densely covered with minute white particles, equal, 

 brittle. TJills white, adnate, abruptly narrowed behind, 

 ventricose. edge irregular. 



Spores white, 4—5 X 3 jj., oval, smooth. 



On the ground in shruliberies, Peradeniya ; smells strongly 

 of now nu';i]. 



76. — Collybia omotricha Berk. 



This species was originally described from South Africa in 

 Hooker's Jjondon Journal of Botany, Vol. II., p. 410, and was 

 subsi'quently enumerated among the fungi sent by Gardner 

 from Ceylon. 



Gardner's ligure is scarcely recognizable ; from the colour 

 of llic {/ills his fungus was apparently a small Psalliota. 

 Thwaites did not collect it, and there is no Ceylon specimen at 

 Kew. Under the circumstances, the record must be considered 

 doubtful, and the name CoUyhia omotricha should be deleted 

 from the Ceylon list. 



