58 AGARICINI. 



Hygrocybe. II. TENUIORES. 



* Stem white. 



118. C. rigens Fr. Pileus 2.5-5 cent - ( l ~ 2 m -) ar >d more broad, 

 opaque and tan-clay-colour when damp, tan-whitish when dry, 



fleshy, thin, when young campanulate and lax, then convex, 

 obtuse or broadly gibbous, even, smooth ; flesh slightly firm, 

 white. Stem 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) long, 4-10 mm. (2-5 lin.) thick, 

 stuffed, furnished with a remarkably cartilaginous bark, elastic, 

 rigid and tough, rooted, smooth, even, naked, pale when moist, 

 white when dry. Cortina scarcely manifest. Gills adnate, some- 

 what decurrent, distant, very broad (6-10 mm., 3-5 lin.), distinct, 

 watery clay-colour, then pallid cinnamon. 



The stem varies much in stature, sometimes equal, thickened sometimes 

 downwards sometimes towards the apex, which is then hollow, even fusiform. 



In mixed woods. Uncommon. Oct. 



Spores pruniform, granulated, 8-9 mk. Q. ; 7x5 mk. W.P. Name rigeo, 

 to be stiff. Stem rigid. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 107. Hym. Eur. p. 395. B. &" 

 Br. n. 391. C. Hbk. n. 539. S. My col. Scot. n. 500. 



119. C. Reedii Berk. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, persistently 

 brown, conical then expanded and strongly umbonate, smooth, 

 shining, disc areolate, margin splitting ; flesh pallid. Stem 4-5 

 cent. (i/4-2 in.) long, solid, fibrilloso-striate, slightly bulbous, 

 white. Veil fibrillose, evanescent. Gills ascending, attenuated 

 behind, free, broad, ventricose, white or pallid, then cinnamon. 



Tasteless and scentless. Allied to C. leucopus. 



Among moss and beech mast. Hayes, Surrey. May. 



Name after Reed. Berk. Ottt. p. 194. C. Hbk. n. 538. Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 395. Hussey ii. /. 45. 



120. C. leucopus Fr. Pileus scarcely reaching 2.5 cent, (i in.) 

 broad, very pale yellow, tan when dry, somewhat fleshy, conical 

 then expanded and umbonate, even, smooth, moist but not viscous. 

 Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 4-8 mm. (2-4 lin.) thick, stuffed 

 then hollow, rather thick, equal or slightly attenuated upwards, 

 soft, shining white, furnished with a cortina at the middle. Gills 

 adnexed, separating, crowded, ventricose, thin, pallid then cinna- 

 mon, the edge which is quite entire of the same colour. 



With the habit of C. pluvius, but not viscid. 

 In mixed woods. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



