REVISIONS OF CEYLON FUNGI. 403 



species. The descriptions of Ceylon basidiomycetes were in 

 most cases drawn up from figures which were painted from the 

 fresh specimens ; they are not in all cases " Trocken-diagnosen." 



44. — Marasmius caryotse (B. & Br.) Fetch. 



Heliomyces caryotce Berk., Hooker's London Journ. Bot. 

 (1847), p. 491. 



Marasmius stramineus B. & Br. in MSS. 



In troops, among grass ; occasionally fasciculate. 



Pileus 1 to 2-5 cms. diameter, rarely up to 5 cms., campanu- 

 late, occasionally depressed in the centre, then expanded with 

 a recurved margin, deeply sulcate, with about twelve sulcse 

 reaching almost to the centre and intermediate sulcae extend- 

 ing about half way, glabrous, usually wrinkled in the centre, 

 with a waxy appearance when young, somewhat leathery, 

 thin, grayish -yellow, or pale yellow, or pale yellow but grayish 

 in the furrows, becoming ochraceous or pale brown, red-brown 

 when dried. Stalk 4 to 8 cms. high, 1 to 2 mm. diameter, at 

 first yellow-brown below and white above, becoming yellow- 

 brown or dark brown, rigid, hollow, slightly attenuated 

 upwards, almost glabrous, cartilaginous, tomentose at the 

 base. Gills grayish-yellow, brown when old ; about twelve 

 broad, somewhat ventricose, and adnexed, with shorter 

 intermediate gills which are often more or less obsolete ; 

 rather thick, often forked at the outer ends ; edge even or 

 irregularly lobed. Spores white, narrow-oval tapering at one 

 end, rather thick walled, contents granular, 20-25 X 5 a«. 



This species is not a Heliomyces, since it is not " Coriaceo- 

 tremellosus ; stipes subhgnosus." Berkeley and Broome's 

 manuscript name would have been preferable for this species, 

 because it has no connection whatever with the palm Caryota ; 

 it grows abundantly among grass. The figure in Herb. 

 Peradeniya bears both names in Berkeley's handwriting. 



45. — Marasmius nephelodes (B. & Br.) Fetch. 



Agaricus {Collybia) nephelodes B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 

 No. 105, Journ. Linn. Soc, XL, p. 521. 



Marasmius ochraceus B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 355, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 34. 



