114 fetch: 



On the strengtli ot Berkeley's descriptions the species now 

 stands in three distinct genera, viz., Psalliota trachodes, Berk., 

 Chitonia pedilia , Sacc. , and Chitoniella poderes, Henn. Needless 

 to say, only Berkeley saw the fungus. 



Berkeley's descriptions are as follows : — 



" Psalliota trachodes. Berk., Lond. Jour. Bot., VI., p. 487. 

 Pileo carnoso, convexo, expanso, demum depresso verrucoso, 

 interstitiis sericeis ; stipite sursum attenuato, farcto, albo ; 

 annulo amplissimo deflexo ; lamellia angustis, subliberis , 

 paUidis, demum fuscis. 



" On the ground in shady places, Peradeniya, Ceylon. Pileus 

 11 cm. wide, pale reddish brown; stalk 10 cm. long, almost 

 2 cm. thick, stuffed with loose fibrils and frequently rooting ; 

 ring 2| cm. wide. Gardner, No. 64, cum icone. Thwaites, 

 No. 911, cum icone. 



" 344. A. (Psalliota) pedilius, B. & Br. Pileo ovato 

 compacto e volva stellata ej usque apicem ohtegente oriundo, 

 furfuraceo ; stipite cavo farcto sursum attenuato ; lamellis 

 angustis albis (No. 1,221, cum icone). 



" Pileus ovate, capped with the dark remains of the volva, 

 beneath which it is furfuraceous, fleshy, slightly appendiculate, 

 IJ inch high, li wide at the base ; stem 2^ inches high, 1 inch 

 thick in the middle, obtuse below, attenuated above, with a 

 broad stellate volva at the base, and with a narrow cavity in 

 the centre which is stuffed with white flocci ; flesh, like that of 

 the pileus, turning red ; gills, narrow, free, white. 



"345. A. (Psalliota) poderes, B.& Br. Pileo hemisphaerico 

 fibrilloso squamoso sericeo-striato , apice volvce fragmentis 

 aspero ; stipite sursum attenuato ; annulo supero amplissimo ; , 

 volvse brunneas margine dentate (No. 1,220, cum icone). 



" Pileus 2 inches wide, stem If high, f thick. Undoubtedly 

 closely allied to the last, but differs in the hemispherical, 

 squamulose, striate pileus. less ample volva, and above all in 

 the presence of a large white ring." 



The last two descriptions are from the Journal of the 

 Linnean Society, XIV., 1875, p. 32 ; the measurements are 

 incorrectly stated in Saccardo, Sylloge Fungorum, millimetres 

 being there written instead of centimetres in some cases. 



