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DECADES OF FUNGI. 



tinga, or the white forest ; on the Venezuela side of the frontier it is 

 caUed simply Monte Hajo, or low forest. The Fnn^i of the Caa-tinga 

 are chiefly terrestrial, stipitate Folypori, growing subgregariously, and 

 including a good many forms with differences so slight that they are 

 probably all reducible to four or five species. The Gapo, or periodi- 



5 to 



growing 



cally 



chiefly on decayed wood. In the Mandiocca-Eo(;as and Capoeiras 



overarrown 



on burnt logs, which have apparently a wide distribution in tropical 



America 



One of them, 



which seems to be Tolyporiis sanguineus, I have seen in similar situa- 

 tions all the way up from Para, and it is generally accompanied by 

 two sessile Arjarki. In the whole collection the genus Polyporus is 

 vastly predominant, and I think it not impossible that if I could have 

 remained at Panure the whole winter, I might have got one hundred 

 species in this genus alone. The collection would have been by no 

 means so large had I not been aided in its formation by nearly aU the 

 juvenile population of Panure, the boys being incited to the task by 

 presents of fish-hooks and Jew's-harps, and the girls by the beads and 

 looking-glasses. The girls were by far the most expert in the search, 

 having, as it would seem, more patience than the boys. Their name 

 for Fungus is ' Dichthybaki ' in the language of the Zucana Indians, 

 which is spoken throughout the lower half of the Uaupes, but in the 

 Lmgoa Geral, spoken throughout the Amazon and Eio Negro, it is 

 ^ Urupe.'^ At the Janguarate-cachoeira (Tiger cataract) I am told that 

 m the height of the wet season two species of lungi were eaten, and 

 I was shown the place where they grew, which was under the shade 

 of the Umari-trees,* such as the Uaupe' Indians are accustomed to 

 plant near their houses for the sake of the fruit ; but at that time (No- 

 vember) no trace of the Fungi was visible, and I could only conjecture 

 from the description given me that one of them was an Agaricus and 

 the other something like FistuUna." 



501. Agaricus (Clitocybe) Vespertilio, n. s. ; pileo cyathiformi cine- 

 rascente rimoso-striato ; stipite elato sursum attenuato concolori, lamel- 

 lis albidis subdistantibus decui-rentibus. Spruce, n. 123. 



ixUr^Jat'^^f^^ *,° .*^«L geios Humirium, from whose barlv a perfume is ex- 



Sters ^ ^^'"''^ "^ ^'"^'^' ^°^ ^^^ ^'^"^ "^sed iu carpentry, especiaUy for 



