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or deep yellow, with a few small warts or scales, elsewhere 

 pale yeUow with a few small brown-tipped scales towards 

 the centre, mealy or floccose along the ridges ; strongly 

 phcato-sulcate almost to the centre ; flesh thin ; margin 

 membrajious. 



Stalk up to 6 cm. high, strongly inflated below, contracted 

 at the base, attenuated rather suddenly at about half its 

 height, up to 12 cm. diameter near the base, and 6 mm. 

 diameter at the apex, pale yellow, powdered with minute 

 yellow granules or flocci, with a few brown scales at the base ; 

 soUd below, hollow above ; flesh yellow, interior of cavity 

 white ; base truncate. Ring white or yellow, fragile, free, 

 evanescent. 



Gills pale yellow, narrow, not crowded, free, interstices 

 veined. Spores white, broadly oval or subglobose, 5-7 X 

 4-5 /z. 



On footpaths ; in flower beds, &c. ; often in dense clusters 

 with large numbers of immature examples springing up close 

 to the bases of the expanded specimens ; the mycehum con- 

 sists of rather thick white rooting threads. Young specimens 

 are hour-glass shaped, the diameter of the flat-topped, ovate 

 pileus being approximately equal to that of the inflated 

 base. 



There seems httle doubt that this is identical with the species 

 found in greenliouses in Europe. The lower left-hand figure 

 in Cooke's Illustrations, PI. 5, gives the shape of the base of 

 the stem of the immature Ceylon form, but that of the pileus 

 does not fit ; further, the Ceylon specimens are never white, 

 are not so brown as in Cooke's figures, are not so strongly 

 umhonate, and are much more strongly phcato-sulcate. The 

 last difference is probably due to their greater expansion, since 

 they become plane, or nearly so. The description in Saccardo, 

 Syll. Fung. , Vol. 5, p. 43, is "Pileo submembranaceo , ex ovato 

 explanato , f arinoso et floccuhs plumosis secedentibus squamoso , 

 disco carnuloso, late umbonato, margine phcato ; stipite cavo, 

 bulboso, floccoso : annulo secedente ; lameUisdemum remotis, 

 alhis " : this fits the Ceylon form except in the colour of the 

 gills. The spores are said to be 8 x 5 m, and Saccardo adds 

 the note that it is near Hiatula. This comment is completely 



