Revisions of Ceylon Fungi. 



(PART II.) 



BY 



T. FETCH, B.A., B.Sc. 



rpHE first instalment of " Revisions of Ceylon Fungi " was 

 J- published in the " Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Peradeniya," Vol. IV., pp. 21-68; it redescribed twenty 

 species, whicli had been recorded under thirty-four names. 

 The present contribution deals with fifty- three species, recorded 

 under ninety-one names so far as Ceylon is concerned ; it is 

 most probable that other names have been bestowed on them 

 in other countries. Attention may be specially directed to 

 the fact that the generic name Neomichelia is antedated by 

 Berkeley and Broome's Pithomyces, and that the Ceylon 

 fungus wliich was included in Cooke's doubtful genus Glaziella 

 is a Hypocrella. 



21. — Amanita hemibapha Berk. & Broome. 



Agaricus (Amanita) hemibaphus B. & Br., Linn. Trans., 

 XXVII., p. 149, tab. 33a. 



Pileus at first cylindric, then hemispherical, finally broadly 

 campanulate or almost plane, convex, smooth, slightly viscid 

 when moist ; up to 11 cm. diameter ; deep crimson in the 

 centre, becoming paler outwards; with a broad, bright 

 yellow, sulcate, tuberculate margin, sharply defined from the 

 crimson centre ; flesli pale yellow, reddish- orange beneath 

 the cuticle, rather thick in the centre, very thin towards the 

 margin. Wlien dry, the pileus becomes orange-red, with 

 the margin shghtly paler but retaining the yellow colouration 

 in the furrows. 



Stalk yellow, silky-fibrillose, covered with adlierent thin 

 adpressed patches which have a reddish tint, slightly attenu- 

 ated upwards, pointed at the base ; flesh yellow ; hollow, 



[Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Vol. IV., Part VI., Jan., 1910.] 



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