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fibrils, usually curved at the base ; ring weak, usually pendent, 
white. Gills at first white, then pale pink, finally purple -brown, 
rather narrow, attenuated behind, widely free, sometimes 
slightly ventricose. Spores purple-brown, oval, 5 X 3 pi. 
Berkeley and Broome’s description was drawn up from 
Thwaites’s figure 717*, which represents the fully developed 
purple-gray foim. It is marked by Thwaites, “ certainly 
identical with 714.” There are two figures of 714 ; one of 
these was not named by Berkeley and Broome, but is without 
doubt Psalliota liturata; the other is a half -expanded specimen, 
and from this Berkeley and Broome drew up their description 
of Lepiota muticolor. From recent collections it would appear 
that Thwaites’s statement was correct, and that Lepiota 
muticolor is merely young Psalliota liturata. 
Psalliota celidota is most probably an old specimen of 
Psalliota liturata. Berkeley and Broome, in describing the 
figure, stated that the flesh of the pileus was white, except at 
the head of the stalk, where it was dark umber. This is a 
common feature in old specimens of Ceylon Psalliotas. The 
inner layers of the stalk turn brown first, the extreme outer 
layer remaining white. 
162. — Psalliota zeylanica n. sp. 
Of the paintings of agarics, sent by Thwaites to Berkeley 
and Broome, two, one marked 753 and 763, and the other 
marked 1155, were referred by them to Agaricus campestris var. 
It is doubtful whether the two paintings represent the same 
species, but the second of them has been identified with fresh 
specimens, and proves to be distinct from Psalliota campestris. 
It may be known as Psalliota zeylanica. 
Pileus at first conic o-cylindric, densely clothed with dark 
rufous-brown or blackish-brown, adpressed, fibrillose scales ; 
then broadly convex, or almost plane, the larger specimens 
obtusely umbonate, up to 12 cm. diameter, clothed with 
rufous-brown, adpressed, fibrillose scales and radial fascicles 
of fibres. Flesh thin, white. Stalk 4 *5-5 *5 cm. high,_ 6-12 
mm. diameter, equal or slightly attenuated upwards, base 
bulbous, often with cord-like mycelium attached, silky striate 
and shining above the ring, fibrillose, white becoming brown, 
