4S PETCH : REVISIONS OF 



diameter, equal above and 4-7 mm. in diameter: the swollen 

 part is solid, the Jiarrow upper part is stuffed : clothed like 

 the pileus with large conical warts and meal up to the ring ; 

 above the ring slightly mealy. 



Ring variable, sometimes with a close-fitting movable 

 collar, 8 mm. long, and an ample dependent curtain warted 

 on the under side, sometimes remaining altogether on the 

 margin of the pileus, white. 



Gills free, sometimes narrow, sometimes ventricose, •4-1 

 cm. broad, attenuated behind, rather distant, white. 



Spores broadly elliptical, with an almost terminal apiculus, 

 white, 8-13 x 6-8^. 



On decaying wood. 



The large warts of this species are easily rubbed off, and the 

 stem when handled becomes smooth and yellowish : this 

 accounts for Berkeley and Broome's statement that the stem 

 is " clothed, especially above, with little superficial warts." 

 The specimens were probably gathered by a cooly, and the 

 paintings show tliat all the warts have been rubbed off the 

 lower part of the stem. As in Armillaria asprata and Psalli- 

 ota crocopepla, the warts make the young specimen resemble 

 a Lycoperdon. Berkeley and Broome state that it grows on 

 the ground, but the figures show the wood attached to the 

 base. 



The type figure and specimen of Lepiofa pseudogranulosa , 

 B. & Br., undoubtedly represent a small specimen of Lepiota 

 oncopoda, though the description says that the spores are only 

 5 /It long. An examination of the type specimen, however, 

 shows that the spores reach 13 x 8 ^i : there are some spheri- 

 cal warted spores (? of Sterigmatocysiis nigra, van Tiegh.), 

 5 /x in diameter, mixed with them. Thwaites' 823* was said to 

 be a variety of L. pseudogranulosa, but it differs altogether 

 from that species, and was not taken into account in drawing 

 up the description. The description of L. pseudogranulosa 

 says that the pileus is " estriatus," but the figure shows a 

 striate margin. 



Berkeley and Broome suggest that Lepiota. continua, Berk., 

 collected by Gardner in 1844, may be a wartless form of L. 

 oncopoda. According to the description, L. continua differs 



