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DECADES OF FUNGI 



Hab. On the ground. Sikkim. (Dr. Hooker.) 



Pileus 3-6 inches across, convex, thick, disc tan-coloured, rough, 

 with large thick warts. Stem incurved, If-S inches high, i-| of an 

 inch thick, rather incrassated at the base, nearly even. Pores long, 

 large, rounded behind, nearly free. Spores dark yellow, brown, elon- 

 gated, y-i^ of an inch long. 



A magnificent species, remarkable for its warty surface, small stem, 

 and large spores. It comes nearest to B, gigas, in which the surface 

 is very different, and the spores are smaller. 



* jB. areolatus^ Berk. 



Spores minute, elliptic, -^^^ of an inch long. Stem truly reticu- 

 lated in large specimens. 



* B, scrohiculatus. Berk. 1. c. p. 139. 



Spores about -^-^ of an inch long, elongated. Old specimens have 



somewhat the appearance of Strobilomyces, but the spores are very dif- 

 ferent. 



B. squamatus, B. I.e. p. 137. 



The spores in this species are of a bright ferruginous ochre, like 



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StroUlomyces nigricans, B. 1. c. p. 139. 

 ^P°^^s -jjjL.. of an inch long. 



415. Tolyporm (Mesophus) nodipes, n. s.; pileo carnoso umbilicato 

 orbiculari subtiliter fuliginoso-flocculoso, margine involute j stipite com- 



muni tuberoso nodoso ; pons hexagonis mediis. 

 Hab. On the ground. 



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Pileus fleshy, growing three or four together from one common stem, 

 orbicular, umbilicate, clothed with very minute brownish pubescence, 

 paler in the centre, 3 inches or more across ; margin involute. Com- 

 mon stem very short, continued from a knotty, cylindrical, erect, or 

 oblique tuber, an inch or more thick, and two or three inches long. 

 Pores pale, shallow, subhexagonal, middle-sized. 



Allied to P. subsquamosus, but distinguished by its tuberous, knotty 

 stem, absence of scales, etc. In an early stage of growth the pileus 

 and decurrent hymenium form a turbinate mass ; but, as the pileus ex- 

 pands, the hymenium becomes more distinct, and there is thus little or 

 any real stem. 



• P. talulceformis. Berk. P. spedaiilis, Fr. Nov. Symb. p. 32. - 



Hab. Sikkim, on dead wood. Darjeeling, alt. 7600 feet. (Dr. 

 Hooker.) 



