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solido, lamellisque angustis distantibus decurrentibus | incarnatis. 
Hook. fil., No. 134, cum ic. 
Has. On clay banks. Sinchul, 8,000 feet. October. 
Inodorous, firm. Pileus 1 inch or more broad, convex, strongly 
ineurved and involute, smooth, fleshy, of a bright reddish brown or 
flesh-colour. Stem 3 inches high, $ of an inch thick, ventricose, of 
the same colour as the pileus, streaked, fibrilloso-striate, solid. Gills 
distant, narrow, shortly decurrent, paler than the pileus. * 
Very nearly allied to 4. edematopus, but differing in its smooth 
pileus and distant gills. 
* A. velutipes, Curt. Hook. fiL, No. 23, cum ic. 
Has. On dead wood. Darjeeling, 7-8,000 feet. May. 
P (To be continued.) 
Note on Microcacurys, Hook. fil., and on a new allied genus of Cow1- 
FERÆ of Van Diemen's Land ; by WILLIAM ARCHER, JUN., Esa. 
(Communicated by DR. LINDLEY.) 
I. Microcacurys, Hook. fil. 
Flores dioici. Masc. Amenta ovata; Sguame antherifere rhombeo- 
ovate, unguiculatæ, peltatæ. Antherarum thece 2, globose, squamis 
suis valde majores, divaricate. Pollen trigonum, trinucleatum. 
Few. Amenta simplicissima, erecta, vix folia extrema superemi- 
nentia. Sguame 4, semi-rotunde, cruciatim opposite, conniventes. 
Ovula 4, amenti ad angulos interiores posita. Strodilus minimus, 
e squamis triangulari-ovatis inzequalibus erectis formatus. Semina 
(2 generaliter perfecta) subfusiformia, nudissima, squamis sublatiora ; 
testa papyracea, triptera.—Arbuscula, 10 ad 20 ped. alta, facie 
subsimilis Cupresso. Rami ramulosissimi. Ramuli plurimi, tetra- 
goni, sub 1 lin. lati, subdistichi. Folia rhombeo-ovata, versus apicem 
inflera, obtusa, dorso obtusangulosa, cruciatim opposita, ramo appressa. 
Amenta ad apices ramulorum plurima. 
M. tetragona. Hook. fil., in Lond. Journ. Bot., vol. iv. p. 150 (dene: 
plante fem. excl.). 
Oss. The female amenta, je wet by Dr. J. D. Hooker as leben 
to this plant, appertain to a hitherto undescribed genus, for bimus I 
have proposed the name of — 
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