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all agree with the descriptions of tliese three. Suhclypeolaria 

 is a Cuban species, possibly quite different from zeylanica ; no 

 conclusion can be drawn from the fact that a Ceylon species 

 was considered identical, ■and the description is too brief to be 

 of service. As illustrating the confusion over this species ; 

 the figure which Berkeley and Broome cite as rubicata is 

 marked by them zeylanica : and the figure marked theloides 

 and subsequently referred to zeylanica exactly matches tliose 

 marked L. inebriata. The last-named differs only in the colour 

 change of the gills, and is probably a " weather form." 



Thwaites' Marasmii include, according to Berkeley and 

 Broome, 44 species, all but two of which were gathered in the 

 Peradeniya Gardens. Of these, we have only fourteen figures 

 and fifteen named gatherings. The number of figures is instruc- 

 tive , for it indicates to some degree how many species Thwaites 

 thought he had collected ; he did not trouble , except in a few 

 cases, to make another drawing of what he considered the same 

 species , unless it showed wide variation ; and consequently 

 when Berkeley and Broome split up one gathering into two or 

 more species we have only the figure of one. Before attempting 

 to identify these forty-four species, it was thought advisable to 

 roughly classify them by means of the descriptions into Colly- 

 biarii and Mycenarii. but this proves quite impossible, as the 

 necessary characters ?re not igiven. Comparing Thwaites' 

 numbers, we find that his 38, 100, 102, and 752 were each 

 split up into two species ; his 101 into four Marasmii and a 

 Collybia ; his 204 into five Marasmii and a Collybia ; and his 

 807 into three Marasmii : it is readily understood, therefore, 

 why we have so few figures. Now, the genus is not parti- 

 cularly abundant in the Gardens at the present day ; we have 

 no " fairy ring " species to compare with M. oreades ; our 

 common species among grass is Heliomyces caryotce which 

 does not grow on Caryota, and seems no more than a good 

 Marasmius. On the other hand, specimens, if not species, 

 of Mycenarii are fairly common on dead leaves and twigs. 

 Up to the present about six of these have been connected with 



