AGARICINI. 



Hygro- 



phorus. 



XL VIII. Hygrophoruspratensis, 

 One-third natural size. 



GENUS VIII. Hygrophorus (i>yp6s, moist; </>>&>, to bear). 



Fr. Gen. Hymen. 



Hymenophore continuous with the stem and descending un- 

 changed as a trama into the gills. Gills acute at the edge, 



clothed with the hymenium which 

 turns into a waxy mass, and not 

 membranaceous. Spores globose, 

 white. Growing on the ground, pii- 

 trescent; pileus viscid or watery, gills 

 often branched. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 

 405. 



This genus differs from the central 

 one of Agaricus in the manifest 

 trama, the substance of which is 

 similar to that of the pileus; from 

 Lactarius and Russula by the trama 

 not being vesicular, but somewhat 

 floccose with granules intermixed ; 

 from Cantliarellus, its nearest ally, 

 by the sharp edge of the gills. The 

 Cortinarii, Paxilli, and Gomphidii 

 are at once distinguished from it by their coloured spores and the 

 changing colour of their gills, as well as by other marks. From 

 all the other genera of Agaricini it is distinguished by a mark 

 peculiar to itself viz., by the hymeneal stratum of the gills 

 changing into a waxy mass, which is at length removable from the 

 trama. This altogether singular character is specially remarkable 

 in H. caprinus, coccineus, murinaceus, &c. Hence the gills seem 

 full of watery juice, but they do not become milky like those of 

 the Lac tar ii. Monogr. \\. p. 121. 



I. LlMAClUM (Umax, a slug ; slimy). Fr. Syst. Myc. p. 31. Universal 

 veil viscid, with occasionally a floccose partial one, which is annular or mar- 

 ginal. Stem clothed with scales, or more frequently rough with dots above. 

 Gills adnato-decurrent. 



* White or yelloivish white. 

 ** Reddish. 



*** Tawny or light yellow. 



**** Olivaceous-umber. 



***** Fuscous-cinereous or livid. 



II. CAMAKOPHYLLUS (/cajixapa, a vault; <v'AAoj/, a leaf; from the shape of 

 the gills). Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 98. Veil none. Stem even, smooth or ribril- 

 lose, and not rough with dots. Pileus firm, opaque, moist in rainy weather, 

 not viscous. Gills distant, arcuate. 



* Gills deeply and at length obconically decurrent. 

 ** Gills ventricose, simiato-arcuate, or piano -adnate. 



