390 FETCH : 



forms the lines on the stem, possibly micler tlie same circum- 

 stances (see Oudemansiella suhaurantiaca). 



Thwaites' painting of Collybia apalosarca shows a greyish 

 brown pileus, 4 cm. in diameter, darker in the centre : it is 

 apparently striate nearly to the centre, owing to the lines of 

 insertion of the gills being seen through the translucent pileus ; 

 the gills are white, about 7 mm. broad, adnate in the section, 

 but continued in a line down the stem in the view of the under 

 surface : it is marked, in Thwaites' handwriting, "very tender, 

 and the gills somewhat crenate on the margin." The figure 

 of Collybia magisterium is white, with a pileus 11 '5 cm. 

 diameter, and gills 1 cm. broad; the expanded base of the stalk 

 has a conical projection on the under side, which indicates the 

 thin root; the figure is marked "soft and tender: gills 

 serrated." The figure of Collybia euphylla has a yellow-brown 

 pileus, 4 cm. diameter, and gills 1 cm. broad, turning brown 

 along tlie margin ; they are fringed with the fragments of 

 tissue previously mentioned. The herbarium specimens of all 

 these have been examined, and there is no doubt that they are. 

 all the same species. 



This species was fmmd by von Hohnel in Java, and the 

 question of its identity is exhaustively discussed by him in 

 Fragmente zur Mykologie No. 170. The description tliere 

 given agrees with that detailed above. Prom an examination 

 of the original specimens, von Hohnel has found that Phceoli- 

 macium bulbosum P. Henn. and Pluteus niacrosporus P. Henn., 

 both from Java, are identical with the present species. 

 Whether Oudemansiella platensis Speg. is also the same species 

 appears to him to be doubtful. The synonyms determined by 

 von Hohnel are quoted above, in addition to those recorded 

 in Revisions of Ceylon Fungi, Part I. 



Berkeley and Broome state {loc. cit.) that C. apalosarca is 

 " undoubtedly allied to A. magisterium," and that C. euphylla 

 is " a miniature form of A. magisterium^ The spores are said 

 to look "like a magisterium;" the latter is I beheve the 

 receiver of a retort. Collybia cuhistes B. & Br. is also said by 

 its describers to be " allied to A . magisterium and A . euphyllu^ ;' ' 

 the figure looks quite different, and apparently shows a hollow 

 stalk, but unfortunately there is no specimen in the Peradeniya 



