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compressed, unequal, hollow, smooth, even, light or dark 

 sulphur, base tawny or sulphur-white. G. ventricose, distant, 

 white to sulphur and yellow-orange. 



Woods, grassy places. Aug.-Oct. 2\ X 4^ X | in. 



1237. H. intermedius Pass, (from its resemblance to adjoining 

 species) a. 



P. convex, obtuse, flat, fibrilloso-silky, golden-yellow becoming 

 cinereous ; mid. orange. St. compressed, fibrilloso-striate, 

 sulphur to orange. G. ventricose, distant, whitish then 

 yellowish. 



Odour of meal. Roadsides, grassy places, damp ground. Autumn. 

 2 X 2f x | in. Like 1236, but becoming grey. 



1238. H. eonieus Fr. (from the conical pileus) a b c. 



P. often acute, then expanded and cracked, smooth, blood- 

 scarlet, orange, sulphur-greenish, sulphur or smoky light yellow. 

 St. equal, fibroso-striate, twisted, sulphur or yellow, reddish at 

 base. G. ventricose, thin, subcrowded, white, yellowish or 

 sulphur. 



Pastures, downs, roadsides, etc. ; common. July-Nov. 2 X 3j X 5 in. 

 Usually, but not invariably, becoming wholly jet black at maturity. 



1239. H. ealyptrseformis B. & Br. (from the pointed hood-shaped 



pileus ; calyptra, a hood) a b c. 



P. acutely conical, expanded, repand, splitting, minutely innato- 

 fibrillose, salmon-rose, purplish-rose or white ; mid. ochreous 

 or salmon. St. somewhat ventricose, smooth, substriate, white. 

 G. ventricose, rose to pallid, or as P. 



Said to be edible. Pastures, lawns, etc.; uncommon. July -Oct. 

 3 X 4^ X in. Var. niveus Cooke, wholly white. 



1240. H. chlorophanus Fr. (from the pale yellow colour ; Gr. chloros, 



greenish-yellow, phaino, to appear) a b c. 



P. hemispherical, expanded, obtuse, plane, smooth, cracked, 

 viscid, sulphur, yellow, orange or scarlet : mid. sometimes 

 vermilion ; marg. striate. St. equal, viscid when moist, rich 

 light yellow. G. emarginato-adnexed, ventricose, thin, distant, 

 yellow. Flesh yellowish. 



Woods, grassy and mossy places ; common. July-Oct. i X 3| X J in. 



1241. H. psittaeinus Fr. (from the yellow or red and green colours ; 



psittctcns, the ringed green parrot) a b c. 



P. campanulate, expanded, umbonate, yellow-reddish or whitish, 

 smeared with green gluten. St. equal, even, colour as P. 

 G. adnate or with a decurrent tooth, ventricose, thick, sub- 

 distant, yellow, green above. 



Pastures, downs, roadsides, etc. ; common. Aug.-Dec. z\ X 2j X J in. 

 When young wholly green from the gluten. 



