HYGEOPHORUS. 335 



Pileus 1 in. broad, convexo-plane, occasionally siibumbo- 

 nate, viscid, subcarnose, margin snbstriate. Gills very broad 

 (^ in.), ventricose, connected by veins. Stem 2-3^ in. long, 

 2 lines or more thick, flexuons, equal, or slightly unequal, 

 sometimes compressed, yellow, occasionally orange at the 

 base. (Berk.) 



Pileus plano-convex, nearly 1 in. in breadth, yellow, shin- 

 ing, dry and sometimes concave in age. Lamellae rather 

 broad, distant, yellow, decurrent; stipes rather slender, 

 2-3 in. long, hollow, often compressed, yellow, attenuated at 

 the base. Plant subgregarious. (Grev.) 



Hygrophorus (Hygro.) coccineus. Schaeffer. 



Pileus 1-2^- in. across, convex then plane, often irregular, 

 at first viscid, even, bright crimson, then becoming pale, not 

 floccosely squamulose ; flesh thin, coloured like the pileus 

 and also descending into the similarly coloured trama ; gills 

 broadly adnate with a decurrent tooth, distant, connected by 

 veins, soft and watery, base purplish, middle pale yellow, 

 margin glaucous when adult; stem about 2 in. long, 3-4 

 lines thick, then compressed, almost even, not slimy, crimson 

 above, base always pale yellow, hollow; spores elliptical, 

 smooth, 10-12 X 6 /A. 



Hygropliorus coccineus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 19 ; Cke., Ilustr., 

 pi. 920. 



Agaricus coccineus, Schaefier, Fung. Bav., t. 302. 



Among moss and grass, and in open places. 



Size variable. Distinguished from H. jpuniceus, by the 

 broadly adnate gills and yellow base of stem, and from H. 

 minicitus by its larger size the pileus being glabrous when 

 old, and yellow base of stem, 



Pileus 1-2 in. broad, at first obtuse, conico-campanulate, at 

 length inverted, sometimes strongly umbonate, splitting 

 from the centre, yellow, orange or scarlet, viscid when moist, 

 when dry pallid, appearing to the eye fibrillose, but not 

 really so; margin thin, more or less wavy. Gills broad, 

 A^entricose, wrinkled, thick, connected by veins, retaining 

 their colour longer than the pileus, adnate, with a decurrent 

 tooth in depressed specimens. Stem 1^- in. long, -J- in. thick, 

 more or less hollow, subflexuous, smooth though apparently 

 subfibrillose, tough but easily splitting. (Berk.) 



