88 DR, HOOKER’S MISSION TO INDIA. 
Odour like that of 4. campestris. Pileus 2 inches or more across, 
hemispherical, fleshy, strongly umbonate, viscid, lacunose, dull yellow, 
shaded with rufous, border arched, extreme margin incurved. Stem 
6 inches or more high, X of an inch thick, slightly attenuated upwards 
from the somewhat bulbous base, pale, rufous, hollow. Gills narrow, 
linear, rounded behind, pale, dull, cinnamon, with the margin white. 
Spores elliptic, smooth. : 
Resembling somewhat 4. lacrymabundus, but distinguished at once 
by its lacunose, viscid pileus, and different spores. I cannot point out 
accurately its nearest affinity, which is, perhaps, with 4. festivus. It 
seems, however, in point of fact to present quite a peculiar type. 
* A. tener, Scheff. _ Hook. fil., No. 57, 135, cum ic. 
Has. On the ground. Jillapahar. June. Very rare. Darjeeling, 
7,500 feet. October. 
(To be continued.) 
Extracts from the private Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker, written during 
a Botanical Mission to INDIA. 
DARJEELING TO ToNGLO. 
(Continued from p. 59.) 
If I have called the climate of Darjeeling disagreeable in comparison 
to many other temperate regions, it is the very reverse when contrasted , 
with that of the plains of India. There human nature is prostrated 
by the heat, and all other nature by the rain, at this same season, 
which is cool and healthy at Darjeeling. When the cholera stalks as a 
destroying angel, viewless and irresistible, over the length and breadth 
of the land, annually elaiming its thousands of the native population, 
while a vitiated atmosphere is sowing the seeds of chronic disease through- 
out the European population, these hills enjoy an immunity from both the 
one and the other pest; and if their climate cannot eradicate, it yet 
braces the constitution to bear functional disease better, restoring 
strength, energy and spirits to the system, and perfect health, too, 
where chronic ailments are not established. - 
There is one other point of view to which I must allude, in respect 
to Darjeeling; and this, to a geographer, is peculiarly interesting ;— 
