REVISIONS OF CEYLON FUNGI. 383 



28. — Lepiota phlyctanodes B. & Br. 



A. (Lepiota) phlyctanodes B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 24, 

 Jour-n. Linn. Soc, XI., p. 501. 



•Pileus up to 6 cm. diameter, conicocampanulate, then almost 

 plane, often strongly repand, undulating, obtusely umbonate, 

 pinkish brown or pale brown in the centre, shading ofif to pink 

 or white at the margin, thickly covered with browner reddish- 

 brown, conical, rather hard warts, slightly fibrillose between 

 the warts ; margin not striate. Flesh rather thick, white. 



Stalk up to 8 cm. high, equal or attenuated upwards, 3 mm. 

 to 1 cm. diameter at the base, 3 to 6 mm. at the apex, exter- 

 nally white or pink, tibrillose, scaly or streaked with brown 

 near the base, striate and silky at the apex, hollow, lined with 

 shining wliite fibrils, white internally when fresh ; base 

 truncate ; pale yellow- brown when old. Veil ample, depend- 

 ent, white, stHate, with a brown warted margin which some- 

 times forms a thick warted collar on the stem ; in one specimen 

 the veil was chiefly arachnoid with a long tangle of fibres on 

 the stem. 



Gills free, narrow, crowded, white then cream coloured, 

 rounded or attenuated behind, edge slightly irregular. Spores 

 white, narrow-oval, 4-7 X 3 a^. 



On the ground among decaying leaves. 



The typical form of this species is described under the name 

 L. phlyctanodes. L. leontoderes appears to be a weathered 

 specimen with most of the warts washed off the pileus, and 

 the colour of the pileus and stem changed to yellow brown. 



Thwaites' No. 1173*, which has a striate margin, is covered 

 with small brown scales, and is cyhndrical when young, was 

 considered by Berkeley and Broome to be a variety of L. 

 phlyctanodes. It is without doubt a small specimen of 

 L. zeylanica. 



29. — Lepiota cepastipes Sowerby. 



A. {Lepiota) cepcestipes Sow., in B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 

 No. 19, Journ. Linn. Soc, XI., p. 499. 



Gregarious, sometimes connate at the base. Pileus at first 

 ovate, apex flat, then conicocampanulate, finally plane, some- 

 times sUghtly umbonate, up to 9 cms. diameter ; centre brown, 



