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layer whicli slopes downwards and outwards over the lower 

 tawny scales and forms the upper edge of the muff. The 

 stem is white internally, solid, rather brittle, distinct from the 

 flesh of the pile us, but not socketed. 



Gills cream coloured at first, then white, up to 1'2 cm. 

 broad, attenuated behind, somewhat ventricose, widely free, 

 margin entire or crenate (on the same specimen). The inter- 

 ^mediate gills in my fi'esh specimens are much narrower (only 

 half tlie width) than the longer ones ; and in Thwaites' figure, 

 they are only one- half to one- third the length of the longer. 

 Spores white, globose, 7 to 8 /' diameter. 



On the ground. Peradeniya. The smell is somewhat dis- 

 agreeable, resembling that of new tan kid gloves. 



There is a very good painting of three specimens in the Pera- 

 deniya herbarium, whicli agrees exactly with the specimens 

 recently collected. The figure given by Berkeley and Broome, 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc, XXVII., PI. 33, Fig. b., is entirely wrong 

 in colour, and a very poor representation of the sh.aggy pileus 

 and " muff." 



25.— Lepiota pyrrhaes B. & Br. 



A. {Lepiota) pyrrhaes B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 51, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, XI., p. 508. 



A. (Lepiota) russoceps B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 53, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, XI., p. 508. 



Pileus 2 to 3 cms. diameter, at first cylindric, then conico- 

 campanulate, obtusely umbonate, margin often repand ; deep 

 red-brown and smooth in the centre, elsewhere split into 

 minute red-brown scales, reddish or orange-red between the 

 scales : cuticle sometimes peeling off and showing a striate 

 margin ; margin often appendiculate ; flesh thick below the 

 umbo, white or faintly reddish. 



Stalk 2 to 4-5 cms. high, 2 to 3 mm. diameter, shghtly 

 bulbous at the base, slightly attenuated upwards, reddish- 

 white, red, or red-brown, fibrillose, or covered with red-brown 

 scales below the ring, orange-red or orange and smooth above ; 

 sometimes quite smooth and shining, without any ring ; 

 hollow, white or orange-red internally, lined with white fibrils. 

 Ring small, fragile, directed upwards, covered externally with 



