CEYLON FUNGI. 
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1 cm. diameter, solid, equal, expanding into the pileus, 
yellowish-red, covered with minute red points . Gills decurrent, 
arcuate, narrow, rather thick, cream coloured. Spores oval, 
somewhat inequilateral, with a prominent apiculus, minutely 
verrucose, pale ochraceous in mass, pale yellov/ when magnified, 
8-9 X 6-7 pi. All parts turn purple-brown when bruised, the 
flesh tinged purple when cut. 
Peradeniya, November, 1914 ; specimen and painting. 
No. 4230 in Herb. Peradeniya. 
Pileo pallide-rubro vel lateritio, ætate ochraceo, fere piano, 
centro depresso, margine primo involuto, expanso anguste 
decurvo, ad 6 cm. diam., minute tomentoso. Carne alba. 
Stipite ad 5 cm: alt., 1 cm. diam., solido, æquali, flavo- 
rubro, punctis rubris miilutis sparso. Lamellis decurrentibus, 
arcuatis, angustis, crassiusculis, cremicoloribus. Sporis ovali- 
bus, apiculo prominente, minute verrucosis, pallide flavis, 
coacervatis pallide ochraceis, 8-9 X 6-7 pi. 
Psathyra trechispora n. sp. 
Pileus at first conical, then broadly hemispherical or convex, 
up to 7 cm. diameter, smooth and red-bro.wn at first, becoming 
lacunose, dull brown, with a yellowish-brown centre and a 
paler margin when moist, or pale yellow-brown to ashy, with 
a darker brown centre when drier ; hygrophanous ; flesh thin, 
pallid. Stalk up to 9 cm. long, 8 mm. diameter, brownish- 
white or pallid, shining, longitudinally striate, twisted, hollow, 
equal or slightly attenuated upwards, slightly inflated at the 
base. Gills narrow (3 mm.), very crowded, attenuated out- 
wards, the longer adnate with a decurrent line, intermediate 
gills free, but close to the stem, pallid, slowly becoming pale 
purple-brown. Cystidia not found. Spores purple-brown, 
broadly oval, 6-7 X 5 pi, or globose, 5 pi, thick-walled, verrucose. 
On the ground, round decaying stumps, in troops along the 
lines of the lateral roots, Peradeniya ; No. 4919 in Herb. 
Peradeniya, October, 1916. A frequent species, but not 
identified among the species described by Berkeley and 
Broome. As the gills remain pallid for a long time, it may 
have been included by them among the Leucosporæ ; e.g., in 
some details it resembles Collyhia rufipicta B. & Br. 
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