260 AGARICACE^ Hygrophorns 



1206. H. lividoalbus Fr. (from the livid pileus and white gills) a b c. 

 P. flat, buff-white or white, with white-umber marg. St. stuffed, 



equal, somewhat even, glabrous, white. G. decurrent, sub- 

 distant, white. 

 Woods. Oct.-Nov. 2| X 3! X \ in. 



SUBGENUS 2. CAMAROPHYLLUS. 

 (From the arcuate gills ; Gr. kamera, a vault, phullon, a leaf.) 



1207. H. eaprinus Fr. (from the fibrillose stem, as if covered with 



goat's hair ; caper, a goat) a c. 



P. conical, umbonate, convex, then flat or depressed, streaked- 

 fibrillose, blackish, cinereous-fuliginous or umber. St. solid, 

 or hollow above, equal, pale umber- or grey-white. G. very 

 distant, white, then glaucous. 



Woods, pastures, under firs. Oct. 3^ X 4 X \ in. 



1208. H. leporinus Fr. (from the colour, like a hare, lepus] a c. 



P. convex, gibbous, fibrilloso-floccose, ochre-sienna or umber. 

 St. solid, rigid, subfusiform, fibrillose, pallid above, brownish- 

 tawny below. G. pale yellowish. Flesh brownish above and 

 below. 



Taste and odour none. Woods, downs ; rare. Sept. -Oct. 2^ x a| x f in. 



1209. H. nemoreus Fr. (from the habitat ; nemus, a grove) a b. 



P. convexo-expanded, gibbous, then depressed, orange, or 

 yellowish-white-sienna. St. stuffed, squamulose, fibroso-striate, 

 slightly attenuate downwards, pale biscuit-colour. G. thick, 

 whitish to orange. 



Edible. Taste mild. Woods, pastures. Oct.-Dec. 20 X i X ^ in. 



1210. H. pratensis Fr. (from the habitat ; pratiim, a meadow) a b c. 



Pale buff or yellowish. 



P. convex, obtuse or umbonate, then repand, even, smooth. St. 

 stuffed, attenuate downwards. G. very distant, thick, veined. 



Edible, but with little flavour. Pastures, roadsides, downs ; common. 

 Aug.-Nov. 3! X 2 x f in. Sometimes wholly white. Var. umbrinus 

 W. G. Sm. P. olive-slate or whitish-umber. Var. cinereus Fr. P. thin, 

 cinereous, margin striate. Var. pallidus Cooke. P. infundibuliform, pallid. 

 Var. Meisneriensisfr. P. skin easily separable. Tasteless or slightly insipid. 



1210a. H. Karstenii Sacc. & Cub. (after P. A. Karsten) a. 



P. fleshy, convexo-plane, compact at mid., glabrous, even, 

 whitish. St. solid, attenuate downwards, wavy, white. G. deeply 

 decurrent, distant, yellow. 



Woods. Nov. 3i X 5f X f in. Distinguished from 1210 by its chalk- 

 white downward tapering stem. 



1211. H. foetens Phill. (from its nauseous-fetid odour) a b c. 



P. convex, plane, smooth, then squamulose, sepia. St. stuffed, 

 attenuate downwards, paler than P. G. somewhat thick, 

 vinous-brown-tan, somewhat slate, glaucous-pruinose. 



Odour cadaverous, ordure-like, fetid-nauseous. Grassy places. Oct. Nov. 

 I X li X i in. 



