386 ' FETCH : 



tlie distal end and an apical apiculus at the other, thus appear-; 

 ing biapiculate, or rather limoniform, white, 11-13 X 7-8 ft. 



On the ground, among grass. Peradeniya. 



This species affords a striking parallel, in yellows, to the 

 brown Ceylon Coprinus which was attributed to Coprinus 

 plicatilis Fr. In Cooke's Illustrations of British Fungi, PI. 

 1179, copies of the original paintings of the Ceylon species by 

 W. de Alwis occupy the upper right- and left-hand corners. 

 Both are represented as sulphur-yellow throughout, but in the 

 original of the left-hand figure, the pileus is brownish-yellow 

 in the centre, greenish -yellow along the ridges, and white in the 

 furrows, while the stalk is white with a tinge of greenish-yellow ; 

 and in the original of the right-hand figure, the giUs and 

 interior of the stalk are white. Further, the pileus in the 

 original is plicato-sulcate up to the disc, while in the copy it 

 appears to have little more than a striate margin ; and the 

 attachment and shape of the gills are also reproduced incor- 

 rectly. The remainder of the figures on this plate resemble 

 the Ceylon species which was attributed to Lepiota cepcestipes 

 much more than Lepiota licmophora. They are certainly not 

 the latter species. 



The description of Lepiota licmophora in Massee, British 

 Fungus Flora, Vol. III., p. 247, states that it is entirely pale 

 lemon yellow, that it is distinguished from L. cepcestipes by 

 the glabrous pileus, and is perhaps only a variety of the last- 

 named species. But it is not entirely lemon-yellow and has 

 not a glabrous pileus. In all probability the species dis- 

 covered in hot houses in England is not L. licmopfiora ; an 

 examination of the spores would decide the question. 



It seems probable that Hiatula licmophora is identical with 



Leucocoprinvs flavipes Pat. {Hiatula flavipes Pat., Saccardo, 



Sylloge Fungorum, IX., p. 40) and Hiatula fragilissima Berk. 



and Rav. 



31. — Armillaria asprata Berk, 



Aga/ricus {Armillaria) aspratus Berk., Lond. Journ. Bot., 

 VI., p. 481. 



Lepiota asprata Berk, in Saccardo , Syll. Fungorum, V., p. 48. 



This species was sent to Berkeley by Gardner in 1844. Sub- 

 sequently Thwaites sent specimens and paintings which were 



