320 
FETCH : 
below ; internally white, hollow. Ring descending, weak, 
edge sometimes brown. Gills at first dingy cream-coloured, 
becoming yellow when out, then pallid brown, finally purple- 
brown, widely free, rounded behind, attenuated outwards, 
slightly ventricose in large specimens, crowded. Spores pale 
purple-brown, 4-5 X 3 
On the ground among grass, in troops, Peradeniya. 
Psalliota zeylanica. — Pileo primo conic o-cylindrico, fusco- 
rufis squamulis dense vestito ; deinde late convexo vel piano, 
ad 12 cm. diam., rufo-brunneis adpressis fibrillosis squamulis 
vestito; carne tenui, albo. Stipite 4 *5-5 *5 cm. long., 6-12 
mm. diam., æquale vel leniter sursum attenuate, cavo, basi 
bulboso, supra sericeo-striato, nitente, deorsum fibrilloso, albo, 
brunnescente ; annule descendente, fragili, margine brunneo. 
Lamellis primo sordide cremicoloribus, secto flavescentibus, 
deinde purpureo-brunneis, late liberis, post rotundatis, 
exteriore attenuatis, confertis. Sporis pallide purpureo- 
brunneis, 4-5 X 3 yi. 
163.--Psalliota endoxantha B. & Br. 
Pileus campanula te or convex, then almost plane, often 
obtusely umbonate, up to 10 cm. diameter, blackish -brown 
in the centre, elsewhere covered with black, black-brown, or 
gray, »minute, adpressed scales or points. Flesh white, 
moderately thick. Stalk up to 20 cm. long, 1 cm. diameter, 
white, attenuated upwards or equal, sometimes bulbous at the 
base, smooth or floccose below the ring, hollow, turning yellow 
at the base when cut ; ring variable, ample, thick, floccose 
or firm. Gills pink, then purple-brown, free, rounded behind, 
rather crowded. Spores purple-brown, oval, 4-7 X 3-4 pi. 
On the ground among grass, usually under trees and in large 
troops, up to 250, Peradeniya. 
Psalliota actinorachis B. & Br. is this species, with the outer 
layers of the pileus cracked radially and transversely. Psal- 
liota lepiotoides B. & Br. is a dwarf, partly expanded specimen. 
The yellow discolouration at the base of the stem is very 
fugitive, and it is difficult to obtain specimens which show it 
as the base of the stem is usually attacked by insects as soon 
as the pileus is expanded. 
