336 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Hygrophorus (Hygro.) miniatus. Fr. 



Pileus i-1 in. across, flesh thin, convex, obtuse, then um- 

 bilicate, at first even, glabrous, crimson, then becoming pale, 

 opaque, and squamulose ; gills adnate, not at all decurrent, 

 distant, distinct, rather thick and firm, yellow or sometimes 

 tinged more or less with crimson; stem lh-2 in. long, about 

 1 line thick, even, glabrous, shining, crimson, equal, round, 

 imperfectly stuffed; spores elliptical, 10 x />t. 



Hygrophorus miniatus. Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 19 ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 921a. 



Among grass in pastures, woods, &c. 



Very fragile, much smaller than the other crimson or 

 blood-red species, H. coccineus and H. puniceus. Pileus um- 

 bilicate, bleached, and squamulose when old. 



Hygrophorus (Hygro.) turundus. Fr. 



Pileus J-|- in. across, flesh thin, convex then expanded and 

 depressed or umbilicate, covered with greyish-brown down, 

 at length minutely squamulose ; margin incurved, crenulate ; 

 gills decurrent, distant, white then yellowish ; stem about 

 Ih in. long, slender, rigid, equal, shining, tawny, stuffed then 

 hollow. 



JSygroijliorus turundus, Fries, Epicr., p. 330 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 801. 



On the ground. 



Very fragile ; allied to H. miniatus but very dissimilar. 

 Pileus soon broken up into smoky floccose particles, but 

 golden and viscid at first. (Fries.) 



Var. mollis. B. and Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., no. 1279 ; Cke., 

 Illustr., pi. 92lB. 



Pileus |— I in. across, nearly plane then slightly depressed, 

 golden yellow, clad with short radiating fibrils of the same 

 colour, stem equal, stuffed, 1-1 1 in. long, slender, and yellow 

 with a red tinge, base white, hollow ; gills distant, arcuate, 

 slightly decurrent ; spores elliptical, 8 x 4 /x. 



On naked soil. 



In Cooke's figure, copied from Berkeley's drawing, the 

 pileus is more or less crimson with golden fibrils. 



Hygrophorus (Hygro.) mucronellus. Fr. 

 Pileus |— ■§ in. across, almost membranaceous, conical then 

 campanulate, acutely umbonate, margin sometimes upturned 



