138 DECADES OF FUNGI. 
Has. Khassya mountains. 
Pileus 6 inches across, nearly 3 inches thick in the centre, turbinate, 
broadly and very obtusely umbonate, purple; margin slightly lobed ; 
flesh pale red beneath the cuticle. Stem oblique, 3 inches high, 1 
inch thick in the centre, bulbous at the base, of a rich purple, much 
darker than the pileus. , Tubes short, greenish-yellow, rather large, 
decurrent. 
The substance of the stem and pileus is of a uniform, very pale 
yellowish tint, except beneath the cuticle, where, in either case, it 
is red. 
This is a fine species, evidently allied to B. subtomentosus and B. 
chrysenteron, but abundantly distinct. It has the habit of such species 
as B. estivalis. The stem is not reticulate, and therefore the species, 
though agreeing in the form of the stem, will not come in the section 
Calopodes. 
395. B. gigas, n. $.; pileo convexo sicco fulvo squamulis superfi- 
cialibus fasciculato-pilosis adsperso ; carne pallida incarnata ; stipite 
valido reticulato bulboso ; tubulis argillaceis adnatis liberisve. Hook. 
fil., Ser. 2, No. 36. 
Has. In copses of Andromeda and Birch. Lachen river, 1200 feet. 
July 17, 1849. 
Inodorous. ileus 6 inches across, regularly convex, subhemisphe- 
rical without the slightest umbo, tawny, dry, clothed with superficial 
fasciculate pilose scales; margin thin ; flesh pale pink, tawny beneath 
the cuticle. Stem 6 inches high, 14 inch thick in the centre, 2} at the 
base, bulbous, attenuated upwards, curved, pale umber, lighter above . 
and coarsely reticulated, solid, pink within, shaded towards the base 
with blue. Hymenium pale yellow. Tubes rather deep clay-coloured, 
either rounded behind and almost free, or slightly emarginate and ad- 
mate. Spores -7p of an inch long. : 
Allied to B, edulis, or at any rate belonging to the same groupe. A 
most magnificent species, whose pileus exactly resembles that of B. 
` variegatus. : 
396. B. areolatus, n. s. ; pileo amplo leviter depresso alutaceo fulvo 
verrucis hexagonis areolato; carne pallide flava ; stipite deorsum atte- 
nuato; tubulis carneis decurrentibus. Hook. fil., Ser. 3, No. 6. 
Ham. Open pastures. Kala-Panee, Khassya, 5500 feet. June 27, 
1850. 
