CEYLON FUNGI. 
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cuticle splitting when old into radial fascicles and scales of 
adpressed fibrils ; turning black when drying. Often fissured 
in the centre and exposing the hollow stalk ; flesh livid-brown 
over the gills. Stalk up to 7 cm. high, 3-8 mm. diameter, 
equal, often compressed and irregularly sulcate, pallid, then 
pale livid brown, glabrous, stuffed, soon hollow, turning pink 
internally when cut ; base fibrillose or tomentose. Gills 
pallid, then cinereous or lead-coloured, broad (up to 1 cm.), 
ventricose in large specimens, regularly attenuated outwards 
in small plane specimens, broadly adnate with a decurrent 
tooth, sometimes sinuate behind, margin irregular. Spores 
white, oblong oval, 6-9 X 4-6 \x. Has a strong nitrous 
smell. 
Among grass, in rings, Peradeniya. 
Hygrophorus cinereus B. & Br. (Thwaites’s figure 1195) 
appears to be merely a young Hyg. cinerascens. 
173. — Hygrophorus erinaceus Pat. 
The specimens attributed by Berkeley and Broome to 
Hygrophorus conicus' var.. Fungi of Ceylon, 329, agree with 
the description of Hygrophorus erinaceus Pat. 
Pileus up to 3 ‘5 cm. diameter, broadly convex, or almost 
plane and undulating, greenish -yellow, densely covered with 
black-brown, or olive-brown, minute scales and streaks. 
Flesh greenish -yellow. Stalk up to 4*5 cm. long, 3-7 mm. 
diameter, greenish -yellow, glabrous, stuffed. Gills greenish- 
yellow, distant, ventricose, sinuate behind, decurrent. Spores 
white, broadly oval, or somewhat pyriform, 6-10 X 5-8 
Among grass, under trees, Peradeniya. 
174. — Hygrophorus dimorphus (B. & Br.). 
This species was described by Berkeley and Broome as 
Agaricus (Clitocyhe) dimorphus in Fungi of Ceylon, 86. 
Pileus broadly campanulate or almost plane, depressed or 
rather acutely umbonate, 2-2*5 cm. diameter, orange in the 
centre, pale yellow outwards, margin sometimes whitish, 
smooth, subdiaphanous, radially striate. Flesh yellowish. 
Stalk up to 3 cm. long, 3-4 mm. diameter, fistulöse, equal, 
or attenuated at the base, white or faintly yellow, feebly 
