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is eaten in Kashmir, and exported when dry to the plains of India, 

 make up the list of fungi. 



The region of Sikkim is perhaps the most productive in fleshy 

 fungi of any in the world, both as regards numbers and species, and 

 Eastern Nepal and Khasia yield also an abundant harvest. The 

 forms are for the most part European, though the species are scarcely 

 ever quite identical. The dimensions of many are truly gigantic, 

 and many species afford abundant food to the natives. Mixed with 

 European forms a few more decidedly tropical occur, and amongst 

 those of East Nepal is a Lentinus which has the curious property of 

 staining every thing which touches it of a deep rhubarb yellow, and 

 is not exceeded in magnificence by any tropical species. The 

 Polypori are often identical with those of Java, Ceylon, and the 

 Philippine Isles, and the curious Trichocoma paradoxum which was 

 first found by Junghuhn in Java, and very recently by Dr. Harvey 

 in Ceylon, occurs abundantly on the decayed trunks of laurels, as it 

 does in South Carolina. The curious genus Mitremyces also is 

 scattered here and there, though not under the American form, but 

 that which occurs in Java. Though Hymenomycetes are so abundant, 

 the Discomycetes and Ascomycetes are comparatively rare, and very 

 few species indeed of Sphceria were gathered. One curious matter 

 is, that amongst the very extensive collections which have been 

 made there is scarcely a single new genus. The species moreover in 

 Sikkim are quite different, except in the case of some more or less 

 cosmopolite species from those of Eastern Nepal and Khasia : 

 scarcely a single Lactarius or Cortinarius for instance occurs in 

 Sikkim, though there are several in Khasia. The genus Boletus 

 through the whole district assumes the most magnificent forms, which 

 are generally very different from anything in Europe. 



