20 Fungi of the Plains of India. 



characters, Podaxon carcinomalis, no information has hitherto 

 been received as to its condition when young, though adult 

 specimens are not uncommon in collections. A very curious 

 allied genus Xylopodium, occurs among General Hardwicke's 

 collection, but without any details. 



The species which I propose to describe are five in number, 

 and they all worthy of record; the two latter being figured 

 in the Dum-dum collection. 



1. Agaricus (Lepiota) malleus; pileus nearly globose or 

 mallet-shaped when young, then expanded and hemispheri- 

 cal, 3-9 inches across, white and silky spotted with dark brown 

 scales of various breadth, especially towards the disc ; fleshy ; 

 flesh white ; stem 3-5 inches or more high, three quarters 

 of an inch thick in the middle ; attenuated upwards, bulbous 

 below, stuffed with a delicate cottony substance, turning red 

 when cut, externally brownish and nearly smooth ; ring mode- 

 rately broad, fixed near the top ; gills pale yellowish, mode- 

 rately broad, remote ; attenuated behind. Just above the gills, 

 the flesh of the pileus is very dark, though elsewhere white, the 

 dark part being continuous with the outer coat of the stem; 

 the tip of the stem is slightly sunk into the substance of the 

 pileus. 



Allied with some other exotic species to A. clypeolarius, but 

 on a scale as large as that of A. procerus, like which, in all pro- 

 bability, it is esculent. We have, however, no information on 

 the subject, nor do we know whether the Indian varieties of 

 Agaricus campestris, like those of Italy, are unwholesome. 



2. Agaricus (Lepiota) a lliciens, bright yellow; pileus one 

 and a half inch across, at first campanulate, then slightly 

 expanded with a broad extremely-obtuse umbo, clothed with 

 small pilose red-brown scales ; margin striate when dry ; stem 

 three and a half inches high, two lines thick in the centre, 

 slightly thickened below and attenuated above, flexuous, 

 nearly smooth ; gills thin, tinged with green ; spores lemon- 

 shaped. 



On the roof of a house at Masulipatam. It differs obviously 

 from A. cepazstipes in the brown persistent scales and lemon- 

 shaped spores. 



3. Agaricus (Hebeloma) holophlebius ; pileus at first cam- 

 panulate, then expanded and sub-hemispheiucal with a broad 

 obtuse umbo, above two inches across, pale umber, darker 

 in the centre, deeply rivulose with little sinuous narrow 

 depressions, fleshy ; flesh white ; stem three inches high, two 

 lines thick in the centre, bulbous below, slightly attenuated 

 above, pallid, white within, stuffed; gills rounded in front, 

 shortly adnatc, pinkish at first, then pale brown ; spores brown, 

 elliptic-oblong. 



