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79. — ^ruginospora singularis v. Hohnel. 



An agaric which answers in many respects to von Hohnel's 

 description of this species has been observed on several 

 occasions at Peradeniya, but has not hitherto been recorded 

 l)ecause it could not be determined whether it had been 

 prcNiously described, as would be expected, by Berkeley and 

 Broome. It grows among short grass in the open, usually 

 solitary. The ]nleus is about 5 cms. in diameter, almost plane, 

 margin slightly mcurved, ashy, with a pink tinge in the centre, 

 becoming tinged with green when old, with innate radiating 

 fibrils, sometimes slightly scurfy, but generally smooth, dull, 

 not shining ; flesh of the pileus white, thin except over the 

 stalk. Stalk straight or curved, white, expanding upwards 

 into the pileus, up to 6 cm. high, 6 mm. diameter in the middle, 

 attenuated below, slightly longitudinally tibrillose, solid, 

 white, and fibrous internally. Gills pale green, thick, edge 

 obi use. (Iccurrcnt or adnato-decurrent, margin entire, of three 

 lengths, broad (4 mm.), brittle, attenuated outwards, some- 

 times ventricose, ridged and veined above. Spores white, 

 globose, 4-6 (jl diameter. 



The substance of the stalk and pileus is somewhat dry. The 

 whole fungus has a most peculiar, almost an artificial, appear- 

 iUK-e, as though the turbinate stalk and pileus had been carved 

 ( )ul of white wood . and the thick green gills stuck on in the curve. 



The above appears to correspond closely with v. Hohnel's 

 description, and his specimen in the Kew Herbarium. But 

 the spores are not green, " hell spangrun, fast himmel-blau,'' 

 l)ut white, and the gills are permanently green, not at first 

 white and then becoming green from the spores. I was 

 unable to obtain any but mould spores (? Sterigvmtocystis) 

 from the s|Hcinien in the Kew Herbarium. 



80. — Marasmius tortipes B. & C. 



This was described by Berkelej% Journ. Liim. Soc, X., 

 J). 2i)S, fiotn a gathering made by Wright in Cuba. Subse- 

 (juently it was recorded by Berkeley and Broome from 

 Peradeniya, Tliwaites' collection number being LKi. There is 

 no specimen in I lie Brof)me collection at the British Museum, 



