CEYLON FUNGI. ' 55 



Stem 3-4 cm. high, 3-7 mm. in diameter, white, clothed with 

 minute scales like the pileus, mealy above the ring, equal, 

 hollow, stufied with white fibres, base bulbous : becoming 

 reddish when handled, red or red-brown when cut. Veil very 

 fragile, sometimes remaining entirely attached to the margin 

 of the pileus. 



Gills, free, rather crowded, about 4 mm. broad, equal or 

 somewhat ventricose, attenuated at both ends, pink, then 

 purple-brown. 



Spores, purple-brown, broadly elliptica 1,5-5J x 3| yn. 

 On the ground, among grass. 



As in Chitoniella poderes, the central patch on the pileus is 

 the whole of the cuticle of the young specimen : it ceases to 

 grow when the agaric is quite small. 



This species was named Lepiota alphitochroa by Berkeley 

 and Broome (Thwaites 771), though the colour of the gills 

 should have prevented this mistake : the section in the 

 drawing shows the gills dull red. Another gathering (Thwaites 

 842) was na,med Psilocybe canoruhra, B. & Br. : the specimens 

 were rather smaller, but they agree in all points with 

 Lepiota alphitochroa. 



10.— Psalliota crocopepla, B. & Br. 



Pileus 2-8 cm. in diameter, broadly conical, entirely orange 

 or orange-red or brick red, cohered with revolute scales or 

 with spine-hke erect scales in clusters ; margin strongly 

 appendiculate ; flesh white, thin. 



Stem 4-7 cm. high, 3-6 mm. in diameter ; equal, but clothed 

 below the veil with a dense covering of orange or orange-red 

 down which increases in diameter up to the veil, thus making 

 the stem appear obconic ; white or slightly reddish, mealy, 

 and longitudinally striate above the veil ; stufiFed, then 

 hollow ; white internally ; sometimes white and glabrous at 

 the base ; " ring " fibriUose, forming a sharply-sloping upper 

 edge to the covering of down. The down turns crimson when 

 bruised. 



Gills for a long time white, then purple with a whitish edge, 

 free, ventricose. 



