REVISIONS OF CEYLON FUNGI. 395 



stolonifer has a rather thicker stalk than usual, in proportion 

 to the size of the pileus, but it is matched in this respect by- 

 specimens recently collected. 



This species grows in rubbish heaps, often on sticks. It is 

 fairly common, on fallen nuts, which it covers with a white 

 film of mycelium or with rather coarse white cords. These 

 white cords are shown in the figure of Cayitharellus stolonifer, 

 together with the " reproductive knots " mentioned by 

 Berkeley and Broome. It is probable that these irregular 

 white bodies are merely pieces of vegetable matter enclosed 

 by a film of myceUum. 



35. — Clitocybe anomologa (B. & Br.) Fetch. 



Agaricus {Amanita) anomologus B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 

 No. 3, Journ. Linn. Soc, XI., p. 496. 



Pileus 3 "5 to 5 cm. diameter, almost plane, obtusely um- 

 bonate or depressed in the centre, margin usually decurved ; 

 blackish -oh ve in the centre, becoming paler greenish-oHve 

 towards the margin, sometimes streaked with radial blackish 

 lines ; cuticle separable, strongly viscid or glutinous wlien 

 moist, puckered in minute areolae when diy ; margin striate 

 beneath the viscid layer ; flesh thin, white, soft, brownish 

 just beneath the cuticle when cut. 



Stalk 3*5 to 6 cm. high, attenuated upwards, or nearly 

 equal, 4 to 6 mm. diameter, white, silky striate above, 

 stuffed, sometimes sliglitly glutinous in the middle (? from 

 the pileus) but never entirely glutinous ; base sfightly 

 fibrillose. 



Gills arcuate, white at first, then pale yellow, rather narrow, 

 somewhat distant, adnexed, separating when old. Spores white, 

 pale yellow wlien shed in contact with the pileus, globose, 

 3 to 4 fi diameter, or oval, 3x4/*, marked with scattered 

 warts. 



On the ground, among dead leaves. Has a strong smell 

 of meal. 



There is no sign of a volva, even in specimens only 3 mm. 

 high, and apparently the gluten is derived entirely from 

 the surface of the pileus. The stem is sometimes almost 

 sohd . 



