NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI 9 



332), down to and including the LeguminoscB, before he set out 

 The remaining two-thirds were completed by Bentham, and the 

 work was published while Hooker was in the Himalayan region 

 Humboldt represented to Lord Carhsle. then head of the Ofece ot 

 Woods and Forests, that Himalayan collections would be of great 

 value to Kew : Lord Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty, was 

 anxious that the economic resources of Labuan should be investi- 

 gated ; and thus a first grant of £400 a year for two years was 

 secured for Hooker, making his journey a Government mission 

 He was provided with a passage out m the ' Sidon ; but at buez 

 was invited to join the staff of Lord Dalhousie the Governoi- 

 General, and so completed the voyage on his ofecial vessel the 

 ' Mozuifer,' reaching Calcutta in January, 1848. The intention of 

 extending the expedition to Borneo was abandoned, but Hooker s 

 earlier letters to his father were printed by Sir _ William m he 

 Joiirnal of Botany as " Notes of a tour in the plams of India, the 

 Himala and Borneo," and reprinted in ^wo parts, '' England to 

 Calcutta" and " Calcutta to Darjeeling " (1848-9), the title-page 

 serving to mislead the writers of some obituary notices into 

 speaking of Sir Joseph's having visited Borneo, which he never did. 

 (To be continued.) 



NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI.— Part IY. 



By W. B. Grove, M.A. 



(Plates 515, 516.) 



These notices of fungi, chiefly from the neighbouiliood of 

 Birmingham, are a continuation of the series of which l^art m. 

 appeared in this Journal in May and July, 1886; the long inter- 

 ruption has been due to the fact that other and more pressing 

 occupations prevented the gathering together of the various notes 

 made during the interval. Owing to this, some of the species here 

 mentioned have been already recorded as British elsewhere. Ihe 

 numbers prefixed are a continuation or a repetition ot those ot tne 

 previous parts. 



134. Tricholoma humile var. evectum m. 



Pileo 7-5-9 cm. diam., piano, dein depresso concavoque, glabro, 

 levi, hygrophano, fusco, demum paUescente; margme mtegro, non 

 striato; came pallida. Stipite 7-5-8 cm. x -8 cm. apice levi er 

 incrassato. basi crassiore, fibrose, farcto, fuscidulo, P^^^cUtc)- 

 squamuloso, striatulo, superne pulverulento, albido. Lameiiis 

 confertis, sinuatis, palhde ochraceis, tenuibus ; margme integro ; 

 sporis candidissimis, ovahbus, 6-7 X 4-5 /x. . n.f 



In fohis emortuis coacervatis, Studley Castle (Wk.), Sept.-Oct. 



I was for a long time in doubt to what species this should be 

 assigned, but am at length convinced that it is closely ^Hi^d to 

 some of the forms of the very variable T, kumile ; it ditters. how- 



