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FETCH : 
upwardly directed, and is so depicted in the figures, but in 
L. carpophylla it was said to be descending. The point is not 
clear on the figure, but it is certainly not a “ descending ” 
ring in the usual sense, i.e., in which the tissue of the ring is 
continuous with the outer layer of the stalk apex. L. erythro- 
gramma var. c appears to me to be L. carpophylla, but whether 
it is more than a stouter form of var. b is questionable. 
Lepiota erythrogramma var. b has a pileus at first conico- 
campanulate, then almost plane, depressed in the centre, or 
obtusely umbonate, up to 5 cm. diameter, brick-red in the 
centre, smooth or furfuraceous, elsewhere split into minute 
brick-red scales or radiating fibrillose streaks. Flesh white, 
thin, turning red over the stalk when cut. Young unexpanded 
specimens may be uniformly brick-red. Stalk up to 5 cm, 
high, 4 mm. diameter in the centre, equal or attenuated 
upwards, slightly inflated at the base, white, shining, hollow. 
Ring upwardly directed, submovable, upper edge coloured 
red. Gills moderately crowded, free, rounded at both ends, 
white or faintly cream-coloured. Spores white or pale yellow, 
oval, 6-7 X 3 g.. 
140. — Lepiota euconiata B. & Br. 
Pileus up to 8 cm. diameter, broadly conico-convex or plane, 
densely covered with loose woolly flocci and meal, purple in 
the centre, pale violet or pale lilac elsewhere. Pileus (beneath 
the outer covering) purple in the centre, elsewhere white 
minutely streaked with purple, margin not striate, slightly 
appendiculate. Flesh white, spongy, rather thin (4-5 mm.). 
Stalk up to 8 cm. high, 6-7 mm. diameter below, attenuated 
upwards, shghtly bulbous at the base, rooting clothed with 
pale lilac meal up to the ring, white and silky striate above, 
stuffed, then hollow, distinct from the flesh of the pileus ; 
substance of stem translucent towards the exterior, white 
internally ; apex large, contrasting strongly with the flesh of 
the pileus. Ring ample, fragile, powdered like the stem. 
Gills white, then pale yellow, free, slightly ventricose, up to 
6 mm. broad, rounded at both ends, crowded. Spores white, 
oval or subglobose, 4-6 X 3 |jl. 
Among grass, Peradeniya. 
