44 DECADES OF FUNGI. 
Has. In hot valleys on the bare earth. Darjeeling. May. 
Forming large mushroom-beds. 
` 944. A. (Lepiota) deliciolum, n.s. ; pileo ovato obtuso niveo glabro ; 
stipite gracili niveo roselloque fistuloso basi subincrassato ; annulo 
superiore; lamellis angustis distantibus liberis. Hook. fil, No. 40, 
cum ic. 
. Has. In the hollow of dead trees. Darjeeling, 8,000 feet. May. 
Very rare. 
Inodorous. Pileus 1 inch high, 2 broad, ovate, obtuse, snow-white, 
tolerably thick for the size of the species, smooth. Stem more than 
2 inches high, 1-12 line thick, slightly incrassated at the base, white 
tinged with rose, rather silky. Ring superior, subpersistent. Gills 
rather narrow, pure white, rounded behind, free. 
Exceedingly delicate and beautiful; a very nearly allied species, at 
present undescribed, occurs in Ceylon. The smooth pileus and distant 
gills at once distinguish it from 4. clypeolarius. 
245. 4. (Armillaria) horrens, n. s.; cwspitosus; pileo e convexo 
plano, margine subrepando verrucis conicis fuscis exasperato ; stipite 
valido supra ample annulato floccoso squamoso deorsum cavo ; lamellis 
postice subrotundatis lineatim decurrentibus, Hook. fil, No. 67, 
cum ic. 
Has. On bark of old trees, &c. Darjeeling, 7,500 feet. June 
and July. 
Tufted, inodorous, between fleshy and leathery. Pilei 2 inches 
broad, convex, with the borders arched, at length flattened, liver-colo ured, 
rough with conical dark-brown warts; substance pinkish. Stem 3 
inches or more high, + an inch or more thick, of the same colour as the 
pileus, darker below, floccoso-squamose, furnished with a broad, re- 
flected, persistent, reddish ring. Gills moderately broad, tinged with 
pink, rounded behind, but lineato-decurrent. 
Allied to 4. melleus, but differing in its tougher substance, conical 
warts, hollow stem, and other points, This and the four following 
species are closely related. They vary somewhat in substance; some 
might be placed in Lentinus, while others are of too tender and fugitive 
a texture to be so classified. All, at least, must be placed in the same 
genus, unless the closest natural affinities are to be violated; and the 
second is so like 4. melleus, that I had at first considered it a mere 
variety. 4. vagans, Fr., which is taken up from Battarra, exhibits 
