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streaks, longitudinally innately fibrillose, pruinose at the apex ; 
base clothed with yellow tomentum. Gills yellow, narrow, 
crowded, attenuated “ outwards, rounded behind, adnate. 
Spores white, globose, 4-6 ^ diameter. 
At the base of bamboo clumps, Peradeniya, August, 1912. 
Described by Berkeley and Broome as Clitocybe crocobapha. 
The original painting shows specimens with an umbonate 
pileus, as described by Berkeley and Broome, but not decur- 
rent gills. 
149. — Collybia verticolor B. & Br. 
Pileus up to 2 cm. diameter, broadly convex, sometimes 
with an obtuse excentric umbo, white, subtranslucent, then 
pallid yellow, glabrous, cartilaginous, margin at first incurved. 
Stalk usually excentric, the same colour as the pileus, up to 
2 cm. high, 2 mm. diameter, equal, expanding into the pileus, 
glabrous, cartilaginous externally, internally stuffed white, 
then hollow, strigose at the base, attached to the wood by a 
patch of radiating hyphæ. Gills the same colour as the 
pileus, moderately crowded, decurrent, lower edge straight, 
then suddenly decurrent. 
On dead wood, Peradeniya. 
150. — Pluteus balanatus B. & Br. 
Pileus campanulate, 1 cm. diameter, white, diaphanous, 
membranous, sulcato-striate almost to the centre, glabrous. 
Stalk up to 2 cm. high, 1 mm. diameter, white, diaphanous, 
glabrous, longitudinally striate, solid. Gills distant, hyaline, 
ventricose, broad, free, but close to the stem. Spores broadly 
oval, 7-8 X 5-6 (jl, or globose 7 diameter. Cystidia few, 
flask-shaped, attenuated below, neck short, 24 X 8 (jl. 
On the ground, Peradeniya ; the co-type in Herb. Pera- 
deniya is immature. 
151. — Pluteus eugraptus B. & Br. 
Pileus up to 3 cm. diameter, plane, with a strongly developed 
obtuse umbo, tawny, centre paler yellow-brown, striate almost 
to the umbo. Flesh thin. Stalk up to 2 cm. high, 2-3 mm. 
diameter, expanding upwards, glabrous, yellow-brown, white 
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