LIST OF INDIA N FUNGI OF THE BO MB A Y PRESIDENC Y. 1 5 1 



\ AnthvacophjUum nlgritum (Lev.) Kalch.] The same species was found 

 several times in Brazil by Father Theissen. 



(Occurs in North America, Cuba, South America, Australia.) 



Xerotus griseus, Berk. — Khandala. 



Schizophyllum aineum, (L.) Scbrot. 



On dead wood. — Poona, No. 172 — Bombay, No. o7 and 164. 



Lentinus aff. subnudus, B. 



On dead stem. — Khandala (Western Ghats). — No. 147. 



' Ex specim. Kew valde affines videntur L. subnudus, ccespitosus, Curre- 

 t/anus, manipularis, multiformis, et porte omnes ad L. cretaceum ducendi.' 

 (liomell). 



Pileus up to 9 cm in circumference. Scales well developed in the centre 

 of the upper surface of the pileus, but gradually disappearing towards the 

 periphery. Lamellte very narrow, ca. 2^ mm. broad, with sharp edge. 

 Stipe 4-12 mm. in diameter, seems to have been covered with scales. All 

 the pilei of the dried specimens show deep depression in the centre. 

 Original colour not known. Pileus and lamellsB straw-coloured ; stipe 

 lighter. Edge of lamellee with a brown shade. 



Collybia stipitaria, Fr. 



On wood. — Simla, April, 1907. 



Lepiota sordescens, B. et C. 



On the ground. — Salsette. — No. 54. 



Lepiota Badhami, Berk. — Thana. — No. 162. 



Spores white, broadly-elliptical, S-9(%/ 6-7 fx. 



PHALLACE^i]. 



Dietyophora phailoidea, Desv. 

 On the ground. — Khandala. 



HELVELLACE^. 



Morchella conica, Pers. 



On the ground. — Dehra Dun, U. P.^ — No. 95. 



Spores 26-28 \;^ 12-14 jm with thin mucous coate, elliptical rounded, 

 uniseriate. Asci 16-20 ix broad. Paraphyses club-shaped. 



HELOTIACE^. 

 Sarcoscypha sp. 



On the ground. — Khandala. — No. 120. 



There were only two sterile specimens preserved in alcohol and it was, 

 therefor, impossible to distinguish the species. 



Mr. Rehm makes the following remarks : '^ Hymenium totally undeve- 

 loped ; even the youngest specimens show beautiful hairs, which are long, 

 colourless, almost entirely thickwalled, scarcely showing a furrow in the 

 interior, unseptate and pointed. — Approaches Sarcoscypha Racoitzm, Bemm. 

 Rouss. (Sacc. XVI, 713), but, taking their description, cannot be identical 



