Hymenoniycette, Agaricaceoe, Melanospone, Psathyra 315 



Hab. gregaria ad terrain ad caiidices, Peradeuiya, Ceylon, Asia. 



3. Psathyra reticulata Petch, Eev. Ceylou Fungi, in Aun. R. Bot. Gard. 1174 

 Peradeniya, v. VI, P. IV, 1917, p. 322 — P. ohtnsata Berk et Br. 

 Twaites's 711,* 712, 829, nec Fries, P. spadiceo grisea Berk. et Br., 

 Twaites's 712,*** 854, nec Schaefif. — Pileo primo conico, deinde 

 late conico-convexo vel plano, ad 6 cm. diam., interdum acute um- 

 bonato, badio vel cinereo, ceutro saturatiore, lirellis parum elevatis 

 anastomosautibus reticiilato, modo atomato, modo floccoso ; carne 

 tenui, fragili; stipite ad 8 cm. long., 8 mm. diam., albo, nitente, 

 fragili, sparse floccoso, longitudinaliter striato, cavo, sursum atte- 

 nuato ; lamellis pallidis, deinde purpureo-brunneis, margine albo, 

 confertis, adnatis, subventricosis, ad 7 mm. latis; sporis purpureo- 

 brunneis, anguste ovalibus vel oblougo-ovalibus, iuaequilateralibus, 

 6-7*4; cystidiis fusiformibus, 40-50 [x long., 16-20 [jl diam., apice 

 incrassatis. 



Hab. ad terram, Ceylon, Asia. 



4. Psatliyra diminutiva W. A. Murrill, Mycologia 10., 1918, p. 33, Atylo- 1175 

 spora dimin., 1. c. p. 19. — Pileo e Iiemisphaerico late convexo bre- 

 viter umbonato, non expanso, 6 mm. lato, 2 mm. crasso ; super- 

 ficie striata, uniformiter avellanea, glabra ; margine recto, integro, 

 concolori; lamellis adnatis, ventricosis, distantibus, e umbriuis fu- 

 ligineis, acie i)allidioribus integris; sporis late limoniformibus, le- 

 vibus, subopacis, uniguttulatis, sub lente bruuueo-purpurasceutibus, 

 circ. 5*4; stipite curvo, aequali, leniter rugoso, umbrino, 5 mm. 

 longo, 0,5 mm. cr. 



Hab. sparsa ad ramulos emortuos dejectos, Cinchouae Jamaica, 

 1500 m. alt., Amer. bor. 



5. Psathyra lateritia W. A. Murrill, Mycologia 10., 1918, p. 33, Aty- 1176 

 lospora i., 1. c. p. 20. — Pileo e hemisphaerico e late couvexo uou 

 expanso, solitario, 8 mm. lato, 3 mm. cr. ; superficie levi glabra, 

 striata, pallide latericia, disco pallide testaceo; margine recto, in- 

 tegro, albido; lamellis adnexis, latiusculis, distantibus, pallide ca- 

 staneis, acie integris et parum pallidioribus ; sporis ovoideis v. 

 ellipsoideis, levibus, plerumque biguttulatis, brunneo-i^urpurascen- 

 tibus, circ. 9*5; stipite aequali v. supra leniter angustato, infra 

 concolori, supra pallidiori, levi, glabro, 2 cm. longo, 1-1,5 mm. cr. 



Hab. solitarius ad terram argillosam muscosam, Ciuchona Ja- 

 maica, Amer. bor. 



6. Psathyra byssina W. A. Murrill, Mycologia 10., 1918, i^.^o^Atylo- 1177 

 spora b., 1. c. p. 20. — Pileo e fortiter couvexo applanato, teuui, 



