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FETCH ; 
Pileo primo conico, deinde late hemisphærico vel convexo, 
ad 7 cm. diam. ; primo levi, rufo, dein lacunoso, udo 
brunneo, centre flavo-brunneo, margine pallidiore, sicco 
pallide flavo-brunneo vel cinereo, centre fusco brunneo ; 
hygrophano ; carne tenui, pallida. Stipite ad 9 cm. alt., 
8 mm. diam., brunneo-albo vel pallido, nitente, longitu- 
dinaliter striato, torto, cavo, æquali vel leniter sursum 
attenuate. Lamellis angustis, confertissimis, exteriore at- 
tenuatis, longioribus adnatis linea decurrente, intermediis 
liberis, approximatis, pallidis, tarde pallide purpureo-brunneis. 
Sporis purpureo-brunneis, late ovalibus, 6-7 X 5 (j., vel globosis 
5 episporio crasso, verrucoso. 
Polyporaceæ. 
Boletus luteus Linn. 
Hakgala, December, 1905 ; common, 
Poria rubrochorda n. sp. . 
Mycelium forming orange -red strands up to 1 mm. diameter, 
or spreading in sheets over dead twigs, leaves, &c., producing 
here and there small patches of hyménium ; thin, indeter- 
minate, orange-red, margin narrow and tomentose : pores 
angular, about 0*1 mm. diameter. 
Peradeniya, November, 1914, at the base of clumps of 
Dendrocalamus giganteusMumo ; No. 4263 in Herb. Peradeniya. 
Mycelio rhizomorphoideo, rubro, ad 1 mm. diam., vel 
byssoideo ; hymenio sparse, parvo, tenui, efluso, rubro, 
margine tomentoso, angusto ; poris angulatis, ad 0 • 1 mm. diam. 
Merulius polychromus n. sp. 
Centre green, olive-green, or olive-brown with a glaucous 
bloom, surrounded by a yellow-green zone and broad outer 
yellow zone ; extreme margin white and floccose. Yellow or 
brown when old. Substance white, thin. Surface even. 
Spores dark olive in mass, pale yellow-brown by transmitted 
light, oval, smooth, 8-10 X 5-6 [x. ^ 
On newly-built mud and wattle walls, Hakgala, May, 1913 ; 
No. 3769 in Herb. Peradeniya. When the wall is plastered 
and limewashed, the fungus produces only a thin white patch, 
and brown strands spreading over the surface. 
