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VII. Hygrophana (v-ypos, wet, <cuVu>, to appear). Pileus thin, somewhat Tricholoma. 

 umbonate, moist, and, as well as the flesh which is at length soft, hygrophanous. 

 Stem rootless, containing a pith, the whole fissile into fibres. Pileus unequally 

 fleshy, hence more or less umbonate, very thin towards the margin. The 

 colour of the pileus as of itself it becomes pale, as well as from its being 

 hygrophanous, is very changeable in each individual species. Flesh moist, 

 watery, at first compact, then soft, not exceeding in depth the width of the 

 thin gills. The pileus is occasionally pulverulent, which is an abnormal varia- 

 tion arising from the persistence of the veil in dry weather. 



* Gills whitish without spots. 



** Gills violaceous, grey, fuliginous. 



SERIES A. 

 I. LlMACINA. 



* Gills not changing colour, 



60. A. equestris Linn. Pileus 7.5-12.5 cent. (3-5 in.) broad, 

 pale yellowish, or brick-rufescent, disc and squamules darker 

 becoming fuscous, compactly fleshy, unequal, convex then plane, 

 very obtuse, flexuoso-repand ; squamules innate, but the pileus of 

 itself entire (not torn), smooth, viscous, the margin, which is bent 

 inwards when young, naked ; flesh thick, whitish. Stem 2.5 

 cent, (i in.) long and thick, here and there elongated, remarkably 

 fleshy, solid, hard, squamulose, sulphur-yellow, internally white. 

 Gills emarginate or rounded, scarcely adnexed, broad, somewhat 

 ventricose, crowded, sulphur-yellow. 



Stature commonly obese, robust. The colour of the pileus becomes green in 

 later autumn. Odour none, taste pleasant. There are many sufficiently well- 

 marked varieties: Var. pinastreti Alb. & Schw. differs in its stem being 7. 5 

 cent. (3 in.) long, 8 mm. (4 lin.) thick, fibrillose, sulphur-yellow or whitish, in 

 its thin pileus being even, more regular, tan-colour, becoming fuscous-squamu- 

 lose, with watery flesh, and in its gills being narrower. 



In fir woods. Uncommon. Sept.-Nov. 



Spores ellipsoid or subellipsoid, 6-8 x 4 mk. K.; 5x4 mk. W. G.S. Name 

 eques, a knight. From its handsome appearance compared with others in the 

 same group. "A knight among the common people." Linn. Suec. n. 1219. 

 Fr. Monogr. i. p. 50. Hym. Eur. p. 48. Berk. Out. p. 97. t. 4. f. 2 (a smaller 

 darker form). C. Hbk. n. 38. Illust. PI. 72. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 36. 

 Gonn. & Rab. t. 13. /. i. Brig. Neap. t. 6. A. aureus Schceff. t. 41. A. 

 flavovirens Pers. Krombh. 68. f. 18-21. Hartz. t. 22. 



61. A. sejunctus Sow. Pileus about 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, 

 fine light yellow, streaked-fuscous with innate fibrils, fleshy, con- 

 vex then expanded, gibbous, the umbo at length vanishing, viscid 

 in wet weather ; flesh thin, fragile, shining white. Stem solid, 

 stout, ventricose, then elongated, as much as 12.5 cent. (5 in.) 

 long, and as thick as the finger, even, smooth, shining white, 



