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had marked the drawing " Glatkrus crispatiis.^^ Thwaites 

 also forwarded another species, which Berkeley and Broome 

 named Phallus jrroximus, but the name was not publislied in 

 the " Fungi of Ceylon " : Massee discovered the figure and 

 specimen in Berkeley's herbarium and published a description 

 in Grevillea, XIX., p. 94. Fischer states that Berkeley's her- 

 barium also contains specimens from Ceylon marked Phallus 

 pallidum, which are really Ithyphallus tenuis, Ed. Fischer : 

 Berkeley's name was never published, and we have no record, 

 either name, figure, or specimen in the Peradeniya herbarium. 



In the Introduction which Thwaites wrote for Berkeley and 

 Broome's Fungi of Ceylon, he states, " At an elevation of more 

 than 7,000 feet, I found a single specimen of a new species of^ 

 Phallus of a deep red colour, which has not occurred to me 

 elsewhere." There is nowhere any indication of what this 

 species was : all Thwaites' s recorded specimens are from much 

 lower elevations, and the description does not agree with any 

 species of Phallus known to exist in the Island. 



During the last three years all the recorded species (except 

 Ithyphallus tenuis) have been collected, with the addition of 

 Dictyophora irpicina, Pat., and Aseroe arachnoidea , Ed. Fischer. 

 Ten species have now been found, viz. : — 



Mutinus proximus (B. & Br.). 

 Ithyphallus tenuis, Ed. Fischer. 

 Dictyophora phalloidea, Desv. 

 Dictyophora irpicina, Pat. 

 Clathrus crispatus, Thw. 

 Clathrella delicata (B. & Br.). 

 Simhlum periphragmoides , Klotzsch. 

 Colus Gardneri (Berk.), Ed. Fischer. 

 Asero'e rubra, La Bill. 

 Aseroe arachnoidea, Ed. Fischer. 



The number of species compares very unfavourably' with 

 that recorded from Java, viz., seventeen. Most of the Cejdon 

 fungi hitherto recorded have been collected at Peradeniya 

 ( 1 ,600 feet) , and it may be that many other species are to be 

 found in the low-country or on the hills. The species already 

 known exliibit a marked distribution according to altitude : 



