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158. — Galera zeylanica n. sp. 
Thwaites’s figure, No. 711, represents a common Ceylon 
Galera. It was first assigned by Berkeley and Broome to 
Galera tenera, but they afterwards referred it to Galera lateri- 
tia Fr., under which name it was included in the Fungi of 
Ceylon. Both names appear on the original painting. It 
occurs either on the ground, or on dead wood or decaying 
vegetable refuse, and is probably the Galera siliginea Fr. 
identified by Berkeley among the fungi sent by Gardner. 
It does not resemble Galera lateritia, or Galera siliginea ; in 
some respects it is near Galera tenera, from which it differs in 
its white stalk, bulbous at the base. 
Pileus conico-campanulate or conico -convex, 1-5 cm. 
diameter, red-brown in the centre, yellow-brown towards the 
margin ; margin striate, sometimes crenate ; flesh thin, brown ; 
fragile. Stalk 4-15 cm. high, 1-5 mm. diameter, white, 
becoming brownish, attenuated upwards, bulbous at the base, 
longitudinally striate, sparsely fibrillose, hollow. Gills pallid, 
then pale brown, rather distant, sometimes ventricose, usually 
narrow, outer ends rounded, attenuated behind, shortly 
adnate. Spores oval, brown in mass, yellow-brown by 
transmitted light, 8-14 X 4-8 [k. 
Measurements of the spores of different gatherings give 
10-13 X 6-8 ^ ; 11-14 X 7-8 ^ ; 8-10 X 5-6 ^ ; 8-10 X 4-5 
When developed under a bell glass, the stalk and pileus are 
covered with minute erect white hairs, which collapse when 
the bell glass is removed. 
Galera zeylanica. — Pileo conico-campanulato vel conico- ~ 
convexo, 1-5 cm. diam., centro rubro-brunneo, ad marginem 
flavo-brunneo ; margine striato, interdum. crenato ; carne 
tenui, brunneo ; fragili. Stipite 4-15 cm. long., 1-5 mm. 
diam., albo, deinde brunneo, sursum attenuato, basi bulboso, 
longitudinaliter striato, sparse fibrilloso, cavo. Lamellis 
pallidis, deinde pallide-brunneis, remotiusculis, interdum 
ventricosis, sæpius angustis, extus rotunda tis, post atténua tis, 
breviter adnatis. Sporis ovalibus, flavo-brunneis, 8-14 X 
4-8 y.. 
