1920.] Records of Agaricaceae from Bengal. or 
Volva.—Thin and papery, very loose, usually splitting into 
three or four parts and hanging down at the base, internally 
whitish, externally smooth with numerous small black dots 
Spores.—Elliptic, pinkish, 7-8 x 4 »,some round, diameter 
Dp. 
Cystidia.— None. : ; 
This species differs from Volvaria terastia in its thin papery 
volva, in other respects it closely resembles V. terastia. 
Subfamily—OcHROSPORAE. | 
With ochraceous spores. 
8. Flammula dilepis, B. and Br. 
deniya, Ceylon ; now reported from Khulna, Hoogly, Calcutta, 
from June to September, growing profusely in cavities of dea 
trunks of palms and dead stumps of bamboos and other big 
smaller ones about 1— 
Stalk.—Dark-brown, almost naked, hollow, central, toler- 
ably rigid, of varying lengths from 1-5 cm. 
Gills.— Adnate, broad, crowded, colour deeper brown than 
the upper surface, with acute basal ends, in older ones two 
side walls of gills much torn and divided. 
Margin.—In older ones revolute. oe 
Spores.—Reddish-yellow, surface minutely warted, elliptic, 
6x 4 », few round diame 
Cystidia.—Few, present. 
9. Galera zeylanica, Petch. 
(Plate XVIII, figs. 9 and 9a.). 
Distribution and Habitat—Found on ground at Peradeniya, , 
Ceylon; now reported from Hooghly, Bengal, in September, 
1918, growing on ground amongst grass. 
Pileus.—With long stalk, distinctly umbrella-shaped, 
conico-convex, red-brown at the centre, dirty-brown towards 
the margin, surface smooth, very thin and delicate, diameter 
1-33 cm. : 
as wane hollow, broader at the base, tapering at 
the apex, usually smooth, delicate, central, about 11 cm. long. 
Gills —Pale-brown, somewhat broad, crowded, adnate, 
with acute basal ends. | 
