86 DECADES OF FUNGI. 
volvà ocreatá, margine leviter patente; lamellis liberis carneo-fuscis, 
postice valde attenuatis. Hook. fil., No. 85, cum ic. 
Has. On dead wood. Darjeeling, 7,000 feet. June. Rare. 
Inodorous. Pileus 9 inches or more broad, expanded, but rising in 
the centre to a large conical umbo, pale yellow, dry, glossy and shining, 
clothed with beautiful silky threads, extremely fleshy in the centre, and 
decidedly so as far as the termination of the gills, beyond which the 
margin is produced into a ragged membrane. Flesh tinged with yellow, 
splitting towards the edge. Stem stout, ascending, 8 inches high, more 
than an inch thick in the centre, tapering above, bulbous below, solid, 
white, with a few brownish patches, striate, furnished below with a volva, 
the edges of which only are free. Gills very broad, ventricose, crowded, 
attenuated in front, and very greatly so behind, so as to be decidedly 
acuminate, quite free ; spores red, with a brownish tinge. 
A most splendid species, allied to .4. bombycinus, from which it is 
distinguished by its size, its less ample, closely fitting volva, its very 
acuminate gills, which have a brownish tinge, and its smaller spores. 
It must rank amongst the princes of the Agarics. 
287. 4. (Pholiota) evaminans, n. s. ; pileo carnoso convexo-expanso 
obtuso levi sicco glabro, margine striato; stipite adscendente brevi 
fibrilloso, annulo fugaci ; lamellis adnatis pallidis postice acutis. 
Has. On dead wood. Darjeeling. 
Cespitose. ^ Pileus 3 inches broad, convex, expanded, smooth, 
carnose, tawny; margin striate. Stem 2 inches high, 1 of an inch 
thick, ascending, fibrillose ; ring fugitive. Gills moderately broad, pale 
tawny, adnate, acute behind. Spores elliptie, quite smooth, ferruginous, 
tinged with olive. 
Allied to 4. pudicus, especially the tawny variety, but distinguished 
by its fibrillose stem, fugitive veil, differently formed gills, but especially 
by its much smaller spores, which, as in that species, are perfectly 
smooth and slightly more convex on one side than the other. 
288. 4. (Pholiota) microsporus, n. s.; fascicularis; pileo viscoso 
glaberrimo convexo carnoso ; stipite viscidulo; annulo contexto tenui ; 
lamellis argillaceis angustis postice attenuatis. Hook. fil, No. 45, 
cum ic. 
Haz. On dead wood. Darjeeling. 
Fasciculate. Pileus 2-3 inches broad, convex, viscid, quite smooth, 
pale tawny, darker in the eentre, with livid shades towards the margin. 
