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77.— Pluteus chryssegis (B. & Br.) Fetch. 



A. (Entoloma) chryscegis B. & Br., Jour. Linn. Soc, XI., 

 p. 536. 



Pileus 2-5-4 cm. diameter, broadly convex, golden yellow, 

 fuscous in the centre, becoming brown when old, glabrous, 

 margin striate, feebly sulcate when old, edge pale ; flesh thin, 

 white, becoming yellow. 



Stalk up to 3-5 cm. long, 2-3 mm. diameter, sUghtly 

 attenuated upwards, white, becoming yellowish at the base, 

 longitudinally striate, sometimes twisted, powdered below, 

 glabrous above, solid. 



Gills free, crowded, rounded behind, up to 4 mm. broad, 

 white, then pink, equal. Spores salmon in mass, globose, 

 smooth, 4-6 [x diameter. 



On rotting stumps, Peradeniya. 



78. — Naucoria micropyramis (B. & Br.) Massee. 



Agaricus {Hebeloma) micropyramis B. & Br., Jour. Lmn. 

 Soc, XL, p. 540. 



Inocybe micropyramis (B. & Br.) Cooke, Grevillea, XIX., 

 p. 104. 



Naucoria micropyramis (B. & Br.) Massee, Annals of Botany, 

 XVIII. , p. 501. 



Pileus at first conical, sometimes obtusely campanulate, 

 then almost plane, acutely or obtusely umbonate, dark brown, 

 up to 3*5 cm. diameter, centre covered with dark brown 

 conical warts, cuticle elsewhere split into dark brown, rather 

 rigid, recurved scales ; margin at first incurved, fimbriate ; 

 flesh white, becoming purpUsh when cut. 



Stalk up to 3 "5 em. high, 3 mm. diameter, equal, 

 dark brown, with fine white longitudinal striae, clothed with 

 brown fibrils on the lower two-thirds, base whitish, almost 

 solid. 



Gills brown, edge white and serrate, adnexed, ventri- 

 cose ; no cystidia. Spores pale brown, oblong-oval, 8-10 

 X 5 [JL. 



On the ground among grass : often clustered. Pera- 

 deniya. 



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