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A noble species, which cannot be confounded with any in the small 
section to which it belongs. There is no trace of a ring either in the 
drawing or specimens. 
242. 4. (Amanita) eriophorus, n. s.; pileo expanso umbonato centro 
viscoso levi, margine striato chacüre floccoso ; stipite valido lanato 
bulboso ; lamellis confertis latis adnatis. Hook. fil, No. 111, cum ic. 
Has. On the ground. Darjeeling, 7,500 feet. September. Rare. 
Firm, inodorous. Pileus 5 inches across, expanded, with an obtuse 
broad umbo, cinereous, gelatinous in the centre when moist, obscurely 
flocculent elsewhere; margin shortly striate. Stem 8 inches high, 
more than half an inch thick, pale violet, bulbous at the base, clothed 
with dense down which is disposed here and there in transverse scales, 
solid but spongy in the centre. Gills broad, crowded, very slightly 
rounded behind, aduate. 
There seems to be in this, as in 4. regalis and A. Berkeleii, no trace 
of a ring. Like those, it is a very distinct and splendid species. 
Though bulbous, the bulb is not margined, and exhibits no trace of 
a volva. 
243. 4. (Amanita) Berkeleii, Hook. fil. ; giganteus; pileo carnoso 
firmo subcoriaceo expanso demum depresso fuligineo medio areolato, 
margine estriato furfuraceo ; stipite valido subzequali solido concolore ; 
annulo obsoleto ; lamellis latiusculis confertis albis subliberis. Hook. 
fiL, No. 93, cum ic. 
On the ground. Darjeeling, 7,500 feet. June to August. Not rare. 
Inodorous, firm. Pileus 7 inches or more across, fleshy, expanded, 
at length depressed, dry, rather shining, sooty grey; cuticle in the 
centre tinged with yellow, breaking up into polygonal areze, margin not 
striate, furfuraceous, slightly inflected. Stem 9 inches high, 14 thick, 
` solid, dark like the pileus, somewhat scaly and flocculent, nearly equal, 
penetrating into the soil, blunt below. Ring obsolete. Gills mode- _ 
rately broad (2 of au inch) somewhat ventricose and waved, crowded, 
pure white, free or slightly adnexed, obtuse behind or acute. 
A noble species, which cannot be confounded with any other. Its 
nearest ally is probably 4. excelsus, from which it differs in its firm, 
almost leathery substance, furfuraceous margin, &c. The ring, if 
' present at all, is soon broken up. There is a smaller variety. The = 
stem is also sometimes bulbous, and the pileus but little areolate. 
* 4. excoriatus, Fr. Hook. fil., No. 11, cum ic. 
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