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24. Records of Agaricaceae from Bengal. 
By S. R. Boss, M.A., F.L.S., Professor of Botany, Carmichael 
Medical College, Calcutta. 
(With Plate XVIII). 
The following Agarics collected in Caleutta and the neigh- 
bouring districts were taken by me to Peradeniya Botanical 
guished Mycologist in charge of the Mycological Herbarium, 
and compared my specimens with those in the rich collection 
of tropical fungi. The species mentioned here are for the first 
time reported from Bengal. Some of the Bengal Agarics have 
already been recorded in the Proceedings of the Indian Associa- 
tion for Cultivation of Science, Volume IV, Part IV and in the 
Science Convention of that Association for the year 1918. 
Family AGARICACEAE. 
Subfamily LEUCOSPORAE. 
With white spores. . 
1. Lentinus connatus, Berk. 
(Plate XVIII, fig. 1). 
eee in and Habitat.-On rotten wood in the Philip- 
pine Islands, common on logs at Peradeniya, Ceylon; now 
reported soa: the interior of the Howrah district, Bengal, 
Sueur. 1918, growing on dead pieces of wood, usually in 
cluste 
Pileus. —Stalked, infundibuliform, very thin, smooth, some- 
times perpriipe! scaly, white when fresh, turning blackish in 
ee 
“White, turning blackish at the base in course of 
time; central, minutely tomentose, ey rigid, 23-7§ cm. 
long, hollow 
Gi ‘lls. — Decurrent, very — (breadth about 3 mm), 
crowded, of the same colour as the cap. 
Margin.—Finely divided by the endings of the numerous 
8. 
Spores.—White turning brownish in course of time, oval, 
6x4 B. 
Cystidia.—None. 
