200 
PETCH : 
7 mm. alt., sursum attenuate, basi 1 mm. diam., minute 
tomentoso. Lamellis circa sex, remotis, angustis, crassiusculis, 
adnatis vel subdecurrentibus, sicco inconspieuis. Sporis albis 
ovalibus, inequilateralibus, 8-10 X 4-5 [ k . 
Cantharellus furfuraceus n. sp. 
Up tö 1*5 cm. diameter, orbicular, almost plane, depressed 
behind, margin decurved, white, thin, minutely scurfy ; stalk 
lateral, short, up to 1*5 mm. diameter, clothed with spreading 
hairs ; gills adnate, distant, forked and anastomosing, up to 
0*75 mm. high, edge thick. 
On the ground among moss, Hakgala, April, 1915 ; No. 
4639 in Herb. Peradeniya. 
Pileo ad 1 'dem. diam., orbiculari, fere piano, post depresso, 
albo, tenui, minute furfuraceo, margine decurvo ; stipite laterali, 
brevi, ad 1*5 mm. diam., setis patulis vestito ; lamellis 
adnatis, remotis, furcatis, anastomosantibus, ad 0*75 mm. alt., 
acie crassa. 
Russula purpurea-nigra n. sp. 
Whole fungus at first white, then blackish-gray, finally 
purple-black. Pileus up to 15 cm. diameter, infundibuliform, 
glabrous, with a viscid separable cuticle. Flesh thick, at 
first white, ^becoming black when cut. Stalk up to 6 cm. 
high, 2*5 cm. diameter, minutely pruinose, equal, solid. Gills 
crowded, narrow, attenuated outwards, adnate or adnato- 
decurrent. Spores white, globose, nodular, 5-7 diameter. 
Among grass, often in rings, Peradeniya, October, 1914, &c. ; 
specimens and painting. No. 4175 in Herb. Peradeniya. 
Primo alba, deinde fusco-grisea, postremo purpureo -nigra. 
Pileo ad 15 cm. diam., infundibuliformi, glabro, cute 
viscido, separabili ; carne crassa, alba, secto nigrescente. 
Stipite ad 6 cm. alt., 2*5 cm. crass., minute pruinoso, æquali, 
solido. Lamellis confertis, angustis, exteriore attenuatis, 
adnatis, vel adnato-decurrentibus. Sporis albis, globosis, 
nodulosis, 5-7 ^ diameter. 
Claudopus fusco-lamellatus n. sp. 
_ Ses sile, orbicular, or fiabelliform, up to 7 X 5 cm., cream 
coloured, smooth behind, sometimes slightly tomentose 
