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Decaprs or Funai: by the Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A., F.L.3. 
(Continued from vol.i. p. 239.) 
Decades XXV. to XXX. 
Sikkim Himalaya Fungi, collected by Dr. J. D. Hooker. 
The present series contains the greater part of the species of 
Agaricini collected in and about Darjeeling, by Dr. Hooker. I think 
it best to defer the general observations I have to make till I have gone 
completely through the collection, a task all but finished. I wish merely 
for the present to guard against a reproach made in the case of Persoon, 
when describing the Fungi of Freycinet's Voyage, namely, that he had 
described everything as new, without reference to species already 
enrolled by mycologists. The truth is, that every species has been 
most severely serutinized, and it is only after long study that I have 
felt myself compelled to propose so many new species. In the 
Agaricini, though several species have close allies in Europe, a vast portion 
of the forms are altogether new and peculiar, and often on a scale of 
the greatest magnificence. The new species in the other tribes are not 
so numerous, but in Boletus the same magnificence and novelty is 
exhibited. The Agaries seem to form far the greater portion of the 
Fungi of the country, and amongst the twenty-eight sections into 
which Fries has divided the genus, eight only are without a repre- 
sentative. It is curious, however, that the genera Cortinarius and 
Lactarius are altogether wanting in the collection, though there are at 
least four Russule. 
241. Agaricus (Amanita) regalis, n.s. ; pileo explanato areolato 
sicco, centro carnoso, margine tenui sulcato; stipite valido exannulato 
basi bulboso ; lamellis latis subliberis. Hook. fil., No. 108, cum ic. 
Has, On the ground. Jillapahar, 7,500 feet. August. Rare. 
Inodorous, firm, rather tough. Pileus 5—6 inches broad, expanded, 
at length somewhat depressed, greyish brown, nearly smooth but 
areolate, thiek in the centre; margin thin, sulcato-striate. Stem of the 
same colour as the pileus, ringless, 8 inches high, 1 inch thick, ab- 
ruptly bulbous, transversely floccose, cracked and torn, solid and white 
within; bulb tinged with red, retaining scarcely any traces of the 
volva. Gills broad, ventricose, crowded, almost free, but attenuated 
behind. 
