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edge of the gills. The figure of Pluteus stigmatophorus re- 
sembles this species, but shows a solid stalk ; there is no 
specimen in Herb. Peradeniya. 
154. — Entoloma rhodopolium Fr. 
The species recorded by Berkeley and Broome in Fungi of 
Ceylon, No. 185, as Entoloma rhodopolium, has been collected 
on several occasions at Peradeniya, where it grows among 
grass, often in large numbers. 
The pileus is up to 16 cm. in diameter, at first broadly 
campanulate, depressed in the centre, then expanded and 
infundibuliform with a decurved margin, gray -brown, radially 
streaked with dark innate fibrils, viscid when moist, glabrous 
and shining when dry, margin feebly striate, strongly striate 
when dry. Flesh white, thin. Stalk up to 10 cm. high, 
1*6 cm. diameter in the middle, attenuated upwards, pallid, 
then grayish -brown, often twisted, sometimes longitudinally 
striate, glabrous, powdered at the apex, solid or stuffed, outer 
layer cartilaginous. Gills sinuato-adnate, velitricose, margin 
irregular, pallid, then pink, usually strongly ridged and veined. 
Spores deep pink, angular, quadrate or pentagonal in plan, 
7-11 X 6-9 [L. Cystidia not found. 
It is never umbonate, and is clearly not Entoloma rhodo- 
polium. It may be known as Entoloma inf undibulif orme. 
Entoloma inf undibulif orme. — Pileo ad 16 cm. diam., primo 
late campanulato, centre depresso, deinde infundibuliformi, 
margine decurvo, griseo-brunneo, radiatim fibrillis innatis 
fuscis lineato, udo viscido, sicco glabro nitente, margine 
leniter striato, valde striato sicco ; carne tenui, alba. Stipite 
ad 10 cm. long., 1*6 cm. diam., sursum attenuate, pallido, 
deinde griseo-brunneo, sæpe torto, interdum longitudinaliter 
striato, glabro, apice farinose, solide vel farcto, exteriore 
cartilagineo. Lamellis sinuato-adnatis, ventricosis, margine 
irregulari, pallidis, deinde roseis, valde venosis. Sporis 
angulatis, 7-11 X 6-9 [x. 
155.— Entoloma stylophorum B. & Br. 
From Thwaites’s figures of this species it might be thought 
that the peculiar cylindrical umbo was an abnormality* 
