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Stem 2-3 inches high, nearly equal, but attenuated at the very base, 
varying much in thickness, viscid, smooth, of the same colour as the 
pileus, at length hollow. Ring thin, persistent, viscid externally. 
Gills narrow, attenuated behind, argillaceous. Spores extremely small, 
argillaceous. 
Distinguished from all neighbouring species by its extremely small 
spores. Its nearest ally, perhaps, is 4. pudicus, but it has the habit 
of 4. fascicularis. It has also a strong resemblance to Æ. polychrous, 
Berk., which has, however, darker and larger spores. 
* A. aurivellus, Batsch. Hook. fil, No. 50, 141, cum ic. 
Has. On stumps of trees. Darjeeling, 7,000 feet ; Tonglo, 5,000. 
May, June. Very abundant. 
This species differs from 4. squarrosus in its rather viscid pileus, 
and redder spores, as also in the rounded not subdecurrent gills. The- 
colour of the spores in German specimens is precisely the same as in 
those from the Himalayas. 
289. 4. (Flammula) chrysimyces, n.s.; ceespitosus ; pileo convexo- 
umbonato sicco innato-flocculoso carnoso, stipiteque deorsum incrassato 
cavo aureo; lamellis ventricosis adnexis carnosis ex aureo fulvis 
flavopunctatis. Hook. fiL, No. 109, cum ic. 
Has. On dead wood. Darjeeling, 7—8,000 feet. August, Sep- 
tember. Abundant. 
_ Odour faint, sweetish. Fasciculate. Pileus 3 inches or more broad, 
convex, broadly umbonate, fleshy, brittle, floceose, golden yellow. Stem 
,9 inches high, varying much in thickness, hollow, incrassated below, 
slightly floceose, at length smooth, of the same colour as the pileus; 
ring more or less evanescent. Gills moderately broad, ventricose, 
fleshy, at first yellow, then cinnamon, but sprinkled with yellow specks. 
Spores ochraceous, rather small. 
This species bears some resemblance to 4. aureus, but it is not only 
smaller, but is at once distinguished by its gills sprinkled with yellow 
specks, as in some other allied species, by its far smaller spores, and 
the absence of a distinct ring. Slight traces of the veil remain on the 
margin. 
290. A. (Naucoria) serupeus, n. s.; pileo hemispheerico carnoso um- 
bonato lacunoso viscido, margine incurvato; stipite elato cavo; la- 
mellis linearibus postice rotundatis. Hook. fil, No. 56, cum ic. 
Has. On moist earth. Darjeeling, 7,500 feet. June. 
