LEPIOTA CEPAESTIPES 5 



the nutrient substratum for the niyceHum. The fungus appeared 

 in the same situation during several successive years. The photo- 

 graphs in Figs. 1 and 2 show the external form and size of some 



Fig. 1. — Lepiota cepaestipes. Two fruit-bodies coming up 

 on cinders, etc., from a hot-house in England, 

 photographed about noon. Tlie pilei rapidly ex- 

 panded in the evening, shed spores during the following 

 night and the forenoon of the next day, and finally 

 collapsed during' the succeeding afternoon. Natural 



size. 



typical fruit-bodies, whilst the drawings in Fig. 3 show some 

 corresponding median vertical sections. 



The fruit-bodies of Lepiota cepaestipes are gregarious and, in 

 England, appear on cinders, peat, etc., covering rotting wood in 

 hot-houses, but never in the open. The species has probably been 

 introduced with greenhouse plants from abroad. In Ceylon it 

 occurs in the open, and there the fruit-bodies are always yellow and 



