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keeled edge all round them : so that although the head 

 appears sharply defined, it really merges into the stalk below 

 without a definite limit. The lowest meshes are sometimes 

 destitute of gleba. 



The gleba is suspended in the meshes of the head, and 

 sometimes covers the inner surface of the net also. There 

 is no special suspensory apparatus. Wlien the fungus first 

 expands, the head is covered by a fine white membrane, as 

 in Dictyophora and Coins. The spores are oblong with 

 rounded ends, 4-6X2ju. The smell resembles that of sour 

 paste, and is not offensive. 



I have received specimens which came up through the 

 earthen floor of a store-room, and others which grew in a 

 nursery of Hevea brasiliensis. 



Genus 7. Golus, Cav. et Secli. 



Receptaculum cylindric, hollow, with a chambered wall, 

 dividing above into a number of simple arms which unite 

 again at the apex. 



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Colus Gardneri (Berk.), Ed. Fischer. 



This species is only known from Ceylon specimens. It was 

 collected at Peradeniya in 1835 by J. G. Watson, who left a 

 coloured drawing of his specimen on record, but it was not 

 described until 1847, when Berkeley named it Lysurus Gardneri 

 from specimens forwarded by Gardner. Thwaites sent speci- 

 mens and drawings (including a copy of Watson's) which were 

 recorded by Berkeley and Broome in Jour. Linn. Soc, vol. 14 

 (1875), p. 78. Three specimens and three paintings of it are 

 now in the Peradeniya herbarium. Berkeley's figure (Hooker's 

 Lond. Jour., 1846), which is reproduced in Engler-Prantl., is 

 apparently a copy of Gardner's drawing (not in our possession), 

 and is not a good representation of the fungus. 



Berkeley described it fairly completely as follows : — 

 " Receptacalo elongato, stipitiformi 17-18 cm. alto: stipite 

 longo (15 cm. alto) superne dilatato in partem clathratam 

 apicem conicum receptaculi efformantem transeunte : partis 

 clathratae inteistitiis 5, verticalibus, linearibus : rarais superne 

 attenuatis, apice junctis, extus medio structura stipiti 



