360 tETCH : 



is Lycogala flavofuscum. This species is evidently rare in 

 Ceylon ; I have found it only twice, on the same stump {Ficus 

 elastica), and only one sethalium on each occasion. The first 

 of these was broken, and formed a grayish mass of elaters and 

 spores ; it had apparently measured three or four centimetres 

 in diameter ; the tubes vary in breadth from 10 to 100 m, have 

 papillose walls, and contain spores ; the spores are 6 to 7 f^ in 

 diameter, minutely reticulated over the greater part of the 

 surface. The second aethaUum is 2 cm. by 1 cm., pulvinate, 

 ochraceous brown. 

 Peradeniya. 



Lycogala miniatum, Pers. 



Lycogala epidendrum, Buxb., in B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 

 No. 733. Lycogala affine, B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 732 

 (fide Massee, Mon., p. 121). 



A very common species, not differing from the European 

 form. Thwaites' 316 (B. & Br. 733, in part) is immature 

 Lycogala miniatum in Herb. Peradeniya ; Thwaites' 18 was 

 named Peziza rvherrimM by Berkeley and Broome, but in Herb, 

 Peradeniya it consists of twenty- two sethalia of Lycogala 

 miniatum, 1' 75 to 5 mm. diameter, many of them immature. 

 Massee states that the Kew specimen of Peziza ruberrima, 

 B. & Br., is a collapsed Lycogala (Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXV., 

 p. 117). At Peradeniya and Hakgala var. tessellatum has 

 been collected ; the aethaha measure up to 1 cm. in diameter, 

 but most of them are small, 2 to 4 mm. diameter, black, or 

 olive covered with black warts and reticulated with black 

 bands ; the black warts and bands are chambered (pseudo- 

 parenchy matous) , the chambers measuring 20 to 40 fj- across, 

 and are two layers thick in the middle ; the spores are 5 to 6 /^ 

 diameter. In some respects these resemble L. nitidum 

 {=- L. conicum), but they are not conical, and the warts in 

 the latter species are not chambered. Other gatherings 

 of typical miniatum from Peradeniya contain examples 

 approaching var. tessellatum, in having the scattered warts 

 chambered. 



Peradeniya, Teldeniya, Badureliya, Talawakelle, Pattipola, 

 Hakgala, &c. 



