CEYLON FUNGI. 
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168. — Hygrophorus firmus B. & Br. 
Fasciculate. Pileus 2-3*5 cm. diameter, deeply umbilicate, 
margin decurved, finally infundibuliform, orange-red to 
orange -yellow, becoming pale yellow when old, glabrous. 
Total height up to 6*5 cm. 'Flesh yellow. Stalk yellowish- 
red or reddish-orange, yellow at the base, expanding upwards, 
3-5 mm. diameter in the middle, glabrous, stuffed, then hollow. 
Gills pale yellow, distant, broad (up to 4 mm.), decurrent. 
In all the spore prints of this species, two sizes of spores occur, 
one 13-16 x 9-12 pi, oval, closely and minutely warted ; the 
other 6-7 X 5-6 smooth, subglobose. 
On the ground, among grass, in clusters of twenty or more, 
the clusters often arranged in rings. 
The specimens attributed to Hygrophorus lætus Fr., Fungi 
of Ceylon, 318, appear to be this species ; and, from the 
figure, Clitocybe anisa B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 85, is the 
same. 
169. — Hygrophorus cæsius B. & Br. 
Pileus broadly convex, then expanded, margin répand and 
split, up to 4*5 cm. diameter, dark green, with densely clus- 
tered, dark olive, wart-like scales in the centre, and scattered, 
dark olive points and striæ elsewhere ; showing blue where 
the cuticle is split. Flesh thin, green when cut. Stalk up to 
5 cm. high, 3-7 mm. diameter, equal or fistulöse, stuffed, then 
hollow, deep indigo-blue, becoming pale blue, smooth, shining, 
pale blue internally. Gills at first deep Prussian blue, 
gradually becoming dull green, broad (up to 9 mm.), distant, 
thick, ventricose, slightly sinuate behind, broadly adnate, 
strongly veined above, interstices veined. Spores white, 
oval, 7-9 X 4-5 
On the ground, among grass, Peradeniya. 
Hygrophorus multicolor B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 317, 
would appear to be very close to this species. It has a 
longer stalk, white at the base. But the specimen bears a 
note by Thwaites, “ Blue, shaded with green, yellow, and 
orange.” The figure, however, does not show any yellow or 
orange. 
