CEYLON EFNGI. 
809 
141. — Lepiota spongodes B. & Br. 
Pileus at first hemispherical, then broadly irregularly 
convex and undulating, centre usually depressed, up to 9 cm. 
diameter ; centre covered with purple-black or dark purple, 
flat, angular scales with a fibrillose margin, white between, 
elsewhere covered with shaggy, dark purple, fibrillose scales, 
silky and reddish -purple between them. Margin at first 
appendiculate. Flesh white, rather thick, turning reddish 
when cut. Stalk up to 8 cm. high, 1 cm. diameter, attenuated 
upwards, usually curved, base slightly bulbous, densely 
clothed below with reddish-purple woolly flocci, white and 
silky fibrillose above, hollow. Veil cobwebby, evanescent. 
Gills crowded, free, narrow (4 mm. broad), white or faintly 
cream, rounded behind, attenuated outwards. Spores white, 
oval, 4x3^. 
In many points this species resembles Lepiota euconiata^ 
of which it may be only a weather form. 
142. — Lepiota erythrosticta B. & Br. 
Pileus broadly convex, or almost plane, obtusely umbonate, 
up to 2 *2 cm. diameter, bluish-purple or reddish-purple in the 
centre, even or broken into minute warts, elsewhere white 
with a purple tinge, with scattered purple, innate, fibrillose 
scales. Flesh white, turning purplish when cut, rather thick 
over the stalk. Stalk up to 4 cm. high, 3 mm. diameter, 
purplish below, clothed with purple fibrillose scales, or points 
and fibrils, white and silky striate at the apex, equal, base 
bulbous, hollow, white internally. Ring evanescent or 
represented by scales only. Gills white or faintly cream- 
coloured, free, distant, broad, ventricose, rounded at both 
ends, or rather square behind. Spores white, oblong-oval, 
slightly narrowed at the distal end, apiculus sublateral, 6-8 X 
3-4 
Among dead leaves, Peradeniya. 
143. — Lepiota metulæspora B. & Br. 
Pileus 2*5-4 cm. diameter, broadly campanulate, obtusely 
umbonate, umbo yeUow-brown or reddish-brown, smooth, 
elsewhere clothed with concentrically arranged, thin, floccose. 
