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PBTCH : 
moderately distant, terete or slightly laterally compressed, 
acute, sometimes forked, sometimes bearing lateral protuber- 
ances, subcartilaginous, pale brown with white tips, becoming 
purplish and subtranslucent when old. It may be named 
Hydnum 'pseudomucidum, 
109. — Marasmius coronatus Fetch. 
The species described and figured in Ann. Perad., VI., pp. 
56-58, PL V. 1, as Marasmius coronatus n. sp. proves to be 
Marasmius actinophorus B. & Br. We have no part of the 
type specimen of M. actinopTiorus in Herb. Peradeniya, but we 
have the original painting. From the latter it had been 
supposed that M. actinophorus was an expanded, weathered 
specimen of M. Thwaitesii. Examination of the type at Kew 
shows that this was a mistake. There is only one specimen in 
the type, and that very small and collapsed, but an examination 
of the structure of the hairs on the pileus proves that it is the 
same as M. coronatus and distinct from M. Thwaitesii. 
The painting is a very poor one, because it attempts to show 
a very small specimen, life size. Hence it gives no indication 
of the radial fascicles of hyphæ on the pileus. Massee’s 
figures of M. actinophorus in Cooke’s Illustrations, PI. 1136, 
do not resemble the Ceylon fungus or painting ; they presum- 
ably represent the British Marasmius assumed to be this 
species. They are sufficient to demonstrate that the British 
species is not M. actinophorus B. & Br., and, indeed, the 
description in Massee’s Fungus Flora, Vol. III., p. 172, refers 
to something quite different from the Ceylon plant. I did 
not find these British specimens in Herb, Kew. ^ 
110.— Corticium flavo-rubens B. & Br. 
This species is not uncommon on the dead bark of decaying 
trees at Hakgala. It forms small patches, usually irregularly 
oval, up to about 8 mm. in diameter and 0*5 mm. thick, 
powdery, usually with a definite rounded margin, which is 
slightly tomentose. At first these patches are bright yellow, 
but they become orange-yellow owing to the development of a 
large number of minute red-brown bodies on or near the 
surface. Internally the colour is white. 
