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FETCH : 
pale brown to whitish, adpressed scales and warts, white and 
silky fibrillose under the scales, sulcate half way to the centre ; 
margin sometimes appendiculate ; flesh white, thin. Stalk 
6-8*5 cm. high, 3 mm. diameter, slightly swollen at the base, 
strongly flbrillose with longitudinal white flbrils, yellowish 
and glabrous when the flbrils are rubbed off, hollow, turning 
yellow-brown internally when cut, lined with shining white 
fibrils. Gills white, free, ventricose, broad, rounded at both 
ends. Spores white, 2 to 6 guttulate, fusiform, ends pointed, 
or sigmoid on one side, 15-18 x 6-7 [k. 
Among dead leaves, Peradeniya. 
The figure in Cooke’s illustrations, pi. 39, represents a 
different species. 
144. — Lepiota revelata B. & Br. 
Pileus up to 4 cm. diameter, conico-convex, then répand, 
obscurely umbonate, with a viscid cuticle continuous over 
the centre, elsewhere splitting and exposing the white or 
cream-coloured flesh, dark chestnut in the centre, becoming 
paler outwards. Flesh very thin over the giUs, margin 
appearing striate when moist. Stalk up to 4 cm. high, 3 mm. 
diameter, slightly attenuated upwards, bulbous at the base, 
white becoming pinkish, clothed below with minute scales 
coloured as the pileus, silky fibrillose above, stuffed, then 
hollow, cavity comparatively narrow. Gills white, then 
cream-coloured, free, ventricose. Spores white, oval, or 
oblong-oval, 4x3^. 
Lepiota rhacoderma B. & Br. appears to be the same species, 
but the figure shows a solid stalk. 
145.— Lepiota flavido-rufa B. & Br. 
Pileus at first conical, often flattened at the apex, then 
hemispherical or broadly convex, up to 2 cm. diameter, dull 
green, blackish-green, olive, or dingy yellow in the centre, 
elsewhere yellow covered with minute warts and scales of the 
same colour as the centre ; margin appendiculate with yellow 
flocci ; flesh rather thick over the stalk, turning red when cut. 
Stalk up to 5*5 cm. long, 3 mm. diameter, yellow, mealy with 
yellow granules and flocci, hollow, fined with white fibrils ; 
