.'57S PETCii : 



stage. The last two of these changes have been observed in 

 the same ring : in the specimens whicii came up first the gills 

 turned yellow, but in those which came up one and two days 

 later, wlien the rain had ceased, the gills were white and then 

 reddish. 



Another interesting plienomenon is often observed in this 

 species. The stem is covered with minute points, and these 

 often bear small drops of a red-brown liquid. It appears that 

 this liquid must be exuded from the tissues, since it occurs on 

 that part of the stem above the veil, before the veil is 

 ruptured. 



Lepiota subclypeolaria was originally described from Cuban 

 specimens. There is nothing very distinctive in the descrip- 

 tion, but it was said to grow on dead wood. All that can 

 bfe said about it here is that the Ceylon specimens attributed 

 to suhclypeolaria were undoubtedly zeylanica. 



24. — Lepiota manicata B. & Br. 



Agaricus {Lepiota) manicatus B. & Br., Trans. Linn. Soc, 

 XXVII., p. 150, tab. 3.%. 



Pileus at first hemispherical, margin incurved, then broadly 

 campanulat«, convex, obtuse, apex sometimes flattened, 7 to 

 11 cm. diameter, fleshy ; pale tawny, densely covered with' 

 readily detachable, soft, conical warts and silky flocci ; margin 

 strong^ appendiculate with fragments of the veil up to 2 cms. 

 long, which are tawny and floccose externally ; flesh white, 

 spongy, up to 1 cm. thick in the centre. 



Stalk 13 to 16 cm. high, somewhat inflated at the base, 

 then equal or slightly attenuated upwards, white below and 

 rough there with minute white flocci, becoming tawny above 

 and clothed with shaggy scales of long silky fibrils, densely 

 crowded, and increasing in quantity up t6 the ring, in more 

 or less annular superposed sheets ; the diameter of the stem 

 at the base is 1"5 to 2 cms., that of the actual stem at the 

 "ring" or "muff" is about 1'2 cms., but it is increased to 

 2 cms. or more by the dense mass of scales ; the stem therefore 

 appears obconic, increasing in diameter up to the " ring " as 

 in PsalUoia crocoprpla B. & Br. ; the upper part of tlie stem, 

 from the apex, is clothed with a white, soft, silky, fibrillose 



