396 FETCH : 



36.— Collybia clara B. & Br. 



Agaricus {Collybia) clarus B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 108 

 bis, Journ. Linn. Soc, XI., p. 522. 



Pileus up to 3-5 cm. diameter, broadly convex, dejaressed 

 or feebly umbilicate in the centre, glabrous, pallid yellow, 

 tliin, tough ; cuticle cartilaginous : margin hygrophanous, 

 even, faintly striate when moist. Flesh white. 



Stalk up to 3-5 cm. high, equal, 2-4 mm. diameter, pallid 

 yellow, almost white, glabrous, often compressed, externally 

 cartilaginous, stuffed then hollow, white internally ; base white 

 and shghtly tomentose. 



Gills crowded, narrow, wliite, adnate or slightly decurrent ; 

 spores white, globose or broadly oval, 4-5 X 4 ^. 



Among roots of palms, either in the soil or attached by 

 mycelium to the roots ; Feradeniya. 



No figure of this was sent to Berkeley and Broome, and 

 therefore the colours given by them are merely those of the 

 dry specimens, i.e., " pileo fulvo " and " lamelhs flavis." The 

 description and figure of Collybia verticolor suggest tliat the 

 latter is the same species, but the specimens of it in tlie Fera- 

 deniya herbarium have an excentric stalk. The latter fact 

 is not mentioned in the description of " Collybia verticolor.'' 



37.— Chitoniella trachodes (Berk.) Fetch. 



A. [Psalliota] trachodes Berk. London Journ. Bot., VI., p. 487. 



A. {Psalliota) pedilius B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 344, 

 Journ. Lirm. Soc, XIV., p. 32. 



A. {Psalliota) poderes B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 345, 

 Journ. Lirm. Soc, XIV., p. 32. 



Chitoniapedilia (B. & Br.) Sacc, Syll.Fungorum, V., p. 992. 



Chitonia'poderes (B. & Br.) Sacc, Syll. Fungorum, V., p. 992. 



Chitoniella poderes (B. & Br.) P. Henn., Engler-Frantl. , 

 Naturl. Fflanzenfam., 1898, p. 240. 



In the account of this species published in the Annals of 

 Feradeniya, Vol. IV., pp. 113-122, Hennings' name was 

 adopted ; it was written in 1906, before the present rules of 

 nomenclature had been apphed to fungi, and therefore de 

 Candolle's rule was followed. The adoption of the earUest 

 specific name requires an alteration to Chitoniella trachodes. 



