382 FETCH : 



the " Fungi of Ceylon." The species was described by Cooke 

 in Grevillea, XVI., p. 106. It resembles a large weathered 

 specimen of L. leprica, but if the spores are 8-^10 X 5 /^, as 

 stated by Cooke, it does not belong to the latter species. 



27. — Lepiota earochroa B. & Br. 



A. (Lepiota) earochrous B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 39, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, XI., p. 505. 



A. (Psalliota) erythrospilus B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 

 No. 270, Journ. Linn. Soc, XI., p. 553. 



Pileus 1 to 2 cm. diameter, conicocampanulate, or hemis- 

 pherical, sometimes obtusely umbonate, frequently expanded 

 and almost plane, smooth, blackish in the centre, -elsewhere 

 pink, mottled with deeper pink or red streaks and dots; 

 flesh white, rather thick ; margin faintly striate. 



Stalk up to 2*5 cm. high, 1"5 mm. diameter, white, 

 shghtly fibrillose, turning brown when handled, hollow, 

 white or brown internally. Ring small, erect, upper edge 

 brown. 



Gills free, ventricose, rather distant, deep pink becom- 

 ing brown when decaying. Spores white, obMquely ovate, 

 6-7 X 4-5/x. 



On the ground, among decaying leaves. 



Berkeley and Broome style the pileus " subcorneal, then 

 convex," and "convex, subcorneal": these descriptions are 

 taken from the paintings, but some of the herbarium specimens 

 are obtusely umbonate ; the same mixture occurs in recent 

 collections. In both species they say that the pileus is pul- 

 verulent, but this is a misinterpretation of the red streaks on 

 the pileus in the paintings. The figure of Psalliota erythros'pila 

 shows dirty brown gills, but the spores on the herbarium 

 specimens are only faintly tinged with brown and have the 

 same shape and size as those of L. earochroa. There seems 

 no doubt that Ps. erythros'pila is an old specimen of L. 

 earochroa. 



The same species is probably included under " Lepiota 

 granulosa var. (No. 1149 cum icone)." This name appears 

 toTiave heen a convenient dumping groimd for small Ceylon 

 forms belonging to several species. 



