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DEcapes oF Funai; by the Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A., F.L.S. 
Decades XXXVII., XXXVII. | 
Sikkim and Khassya Fungi. 
(Conan from vol. iii. p. 206.) 
The four decades now described consist of two sets of Indian Fungi, 
illustrated, except in one or two instances, by drawings made on the 
spot. The set marked No. 2 is from Sikkim, No. 3 from Khassya. 
With scarcely an exception, they are all such species as preserve their 
characters imperfectly when dried, and of which accurate figures are 
therefore most desirable. Many, as in the Darjeeling collection, are 
closely allied to European species; but thereis a large proportion of 
the most splendid productions, with which few of our European Fungi - 
can vie. The present collection contains several species of Lactarius 
and Cortinarius, genera which were altogether absent in the first. 
Figures of a few of the species published in the early portion of this 
century, which were intended to accompany the text, were by accident 
obliged to be omitted, and will. appear in Sir W. J. Hooker’s * Icones.” 
* Agaricus cesarius, Scop. Hook. fil., Ser. 3, No. 30. 
Has. Khassya mountains. 1850. ! 
Rather more graceful than the European form, and with a narrower, 
but equally thick volva, which, as well as the stem, is yellowish; the 
gills and ring are white, broadly shaded with yellow. The stem is at 
first stuffed, then hollow. This, like many other Himalayan Fungi, 
differs slightly from the European species; but where there are no 
essential differences, I think it best always to consider them-as forms. 
* A. vaginatus, Bull. Hook. fil., Ser. 3, No. 25, 17. | 
Has. Below Nunklow.  Khassya, 4000 feet. July 12, 1850. 
Pileus dark brown, umbonate. Stem and volva emper. 
paler than the pileus. 
À fine variety, but neni: a variety of 4. vaginatus. No. 17 is a 
paler form, though still with something of the colouring of No. 25. 
361. 4. (Amanita) fritillarius, n. s.; pileo plano sieco nitente, 
maculis nigris variegato; stipite deorsum incrassato griseo virgato ; 
annulo amplo deflexo ; lamellis albis — attenuatis subliberis. 
Hook. fil., Ser. 3, No. 35. 
Has. Ebéngk 1850. 
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