CEYLON FUNGI. 
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ring evanescent. Gills deep cream-coloured, then pale brown, 
free, crowded, rounded behind, attenuated outwards, slightly 
ventricose. Spores oval, 4 X 2*5-3 
On bare ground, gregarious, often in large patches, Pera- 
deniya. 
The spores of this species exhibit an extraordinary variabi- 
lity in colour, as will be evident from the following records 
from different collections : — (1) Spores in mass dark slate- 
coloured, some yellow ; by transmitted light greenish -yellow, 
with a dark epispore. (2) Spores shed on a glass plate in 
contact with the pileus varied from yellow, ochraceous, slate- 
coloured, to blackish from the same pileus ; those deposited 
on the top of other pilei were brown or blackish in mass ; 
others deposited on paper, from pilei supported on pins clear 
of the paper, were dark slate in mass, with in some places a 
faint purple tinge ; in all cases the spores were greenish-yellow 
by transmitted light, with a dark line marking the epispore 
in the case of the dark spores. (3) Another record, from old 
specimens, is “ spores pale purple-brown in mass, almost 
hyahne by transmitted light.” (4) In two cases the spores 
in contact with the decaying gills were yellow-brown by 
transmitted light. (5) Another record gives the spore-print 
greenish -olive to purple-brown when moist, pale yellow to 
slate -coloured when dry ; spores pale yellow or almost hyaline 
by transmitted light, but yellow-brown if taken from the 
decaying gills. 
We leave this species under Berkeley and Broome’s earhest 
name, though it might be preferable to include it under 
Psalliota. Other names for the same species in the Fungi of 
Ceylon are Lepiota hemicMora B. & Br., Psalliota suhcitrina 
B. & Br., Psalliota myriosticta B. & Br., and Psalliota epipasta 
B. & Br. 
146, — Omphalia holochlora B. & Br. 
Pileus greenish-yellow, radially streaked with innate, 
black-brown fibrils, up to 2*5 cm. diameter, at first campanu- 
late, umbilicate, then infundibuliform, margin thin, becoming 
orange -red in drying, reddish when bruised. Stalk up to 
1*5 cm. high, 2 mm. diameter, expanding slightly upwards, 
dark brown at the base, shading into yellowish-green at the 
