264 AGARICACE^E Hygrophorus 



1231. H. coeeineus Fr. (from its scarlet colour, coccineus] a b c. 



P. hemispherical, convex, plane, smooth, not floccoso-scaly, 

 crimson-scarlet or yellow to orange, clouded and blotted 

 carmine, becoming whitish or yellowish. St. even, not slippery- 

 smooth, unequal, scarlet above, yellow below, sometimes rose 

 or purplish, becoming whitish or yellowish. G. adnate, some- 

 times with a decurrent tooth, distant, veined, yellow below, 

 purplish above, edge glaucous. Flesh crimson, orange or 

 sulphur, external layer of St. orange-vermilion. 



Pastures ; very common. June-Nov. 2f x 2g x i in. 



1232. H. miniatus Fr. (from its colour ; minium, vermilion) a b c. 



P. convex, umbilicate, even, smooth then squamulose, becoming 

 rose or orange. St. stuffed, slightly attenuate downwards, 

 smooth, shining. G. adnate or slightly decurrent, distant, 

 rather thick, yellow or vermilion-shaded. Flesh of P. and 

 external layer of St. scarlet. 



Open and boggv places, woods, moist banks, pastures. June -Oct. 

 i X2jx in. Sometimes very small. Does not adhere to paper in drying. 



1233. H. turundus Fr. (from the flocculose pileus ; turunda, lint) 



a b c. 



P. convex, plane, depressed or umbilicate, yellow to orange ; 

 mid. vermilion ; sq. cinereous-fuscous ; marg. sometimes 

 crenate. St. equal, even, lustrous, tawny-reddish or orange 

 above, sulphur below, base white. G. slightly to deeply 

 decurrent, white to orange. 



Bogs amongst Hydrocotyle vulgaris, peaty soil, grassy places. July-Oct. 

 if X 2^ X T 3 in. Adheres to paper in drying. Var. mollis B. & Br. 

 P. golden-yellow-squamulose. 



1234. H. mueronellus Fr. (from the shape of the pileus, acutely 



conical when young ; mitcro, a sharp point) a. 

 P. becoming campanulate and repand, umbonate, scarlet, bright 



red, orange or yellow, then hoary ; marg. striate when moist. 



St. equal, even, smooth, yellow or scarlet, white below. 



G. subdecurrent, yellow, orange above. 

 Fields. Dec. f x i& X ^ in. 



1235. H. punieeus Fr. (from the colour; pnniccus, blood-red) a b c. 

 P. convex, obtuse, expanded, subumbonate, scarlet-crimson, some- 

 times clouded orange, sometimes orange-brown. St. equal or 

 ventricose, striate ; colour as P., white, yellowish or sulphur at 

 base. G. ventricose, thick, distant, white-yellow, often reddish 

 above. Flesh deep orange and sulphur in P., sulphur in St. 



Pastures, downs, mossy places, sometimes woods ; frequent. June-Nov. 

 4i X S X i in. 



1236. H. obrusseus Fr. (from the golden colours ; obrussa, the 



assaying of gold by fire) a b c. 



P. campanulate, expanded, obtuse or umbonate, golden sulphur- 

 yellow or golden to orange ; mid. somewhat vermilion. St. 



