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FETCH : 
170. — Hygrophorus roseostriatus B. & Br. 
This "species is common at Peradeniya, growing among 
grass in large rings. The pileus is conic o-campanulate, then 
almost plane, obtusely umbonate, crimson, or crimson with 
yellow streak’s, or entirely yellow or orange -yellow, up to 5 cm. 
diameter, with adpressed fibrils, which become ashy in drying. 
Flesh thin, yellow, white in the centre. Stalk up to 7 cm. 
long, 1 cm. diameter, pale yellow to orange, white at the base, 
stuffed, then hollow, white or yellow internally. Gills often 
irregular, thick, distant, ventricose, up to 1 cm. broad, free or 
sinuato-adnate, pale yellow or orange -yellow. Spores white, 
8-10 X 4-5 
This species has several other names in the Fungi of Ceylon. 
It is “324, Hygrophorus ceraceus Fr. var. moschatus B. & 
Br.,” and “ 337, Hygrophorus chlorophanus Fr.” Hygrophorus 
bicolor B. & Br. is a specimen which has been caught by dry 
weather, and Hygrophorus glanduliformis B. & Br. is a 
distorted specimen. 
171. — Hygrophorus elegantissimus B. & Br. 
Pileus conico-campanulate, then broadly convex, umbonate, 
up to 4 cm. diameter, at first brown with a pinkish tinge, 
then pale pink, sometimes retaining the brown colour at the 
margin, innately silky striate when dry ; margin irregular. 
Flesh pink. Stalk pink, up to 4*5 cm. high, 5 mm. diameter, 
equal, or inflated below, smooth, glabrous, stuffed. Gills 
pale pink, whitish at the edge, distant, broad, ventricose, 
veined, edge irregular, decurrent with a broad sinus. Spores, 
white, broadly oval, 6-9 X 4-6 The whole fungus becomes 
reddish-orange when decaying. 
On the ground, among grass, Peradeniya, July, 1908 ; 
July, 1913. 
172. — Hygrophorus cinerascens B. & Br. 
Pileus at first broadly convex, centre depressed, sometimes 
becoming almost plane, with a répand and undulating margin, 
5 cm. diameter ; or conico-campanulate, up to 5 cm. diameter 
and 3 cm. high ; livid brown when moist, becoming gray- 
brown, streaked with ashy innate fibrils, margin usually pale ; 
