350 FUXGUS-FLOEA. 



large siibglobose spores. H. cUstans differs in tlie wliite 

 Timbilifcate pileus. 



Hygropliorus (Camar.; metapodius. Fr. 



Pileus 14-3 in. across, flesh ^ in. thick at the disc, pale 

 grey, convex then plane, olDtuse, at first even and somewhat 

 shining, then silky and squamiilose, irregular, greyish- 

 brown ; gills variable in mode of attachment, adnate, broadly 

 emarginate or arcuato-decurrent, distant, thick, veined, about 

 3 lines broad, grevish-white ; stem stuffed, 1-2 in. long, 

 ■J in. and more thick, attenuated towards the base, unequal, 

 ascending, glabrous, grey, reddish inside ; spores elliptical, 

 8 X o./x. 



Hygropliorus metapodius, Fries, Epicr., p. 328 ; Cke., lUustr., 

 pi. 218. 



In mossy pastures, &c. 



Very distinct from H. ovinus, the only species to which it 

 is allied, in the thick flesh, fragility, and often deformed 

 when growing in clusters. From the thick flesh becoming 

 reddish and afterwards blackish when broken, and the juicy 

 gills, the present species is very analogous with liussula 

 adusta. Smell resembling new meal, taste sweet. (Fries.) 



Hygrophorus (Camar.) ovinus. Bull. 



Pileus I5— 2|- in. across, flesh thin, campanulate then 

 expanded, rather umbonate, at first rather viscid and even, 

 then dry and squamulose, brown, at length revolute, wavy, 

 cracked, blackish in large forms ; gills arcuato-adnate, with 

 a decurrent tooth, distant, thick, usually 3 lines broad, 

 connected by veins, and sometimes divided, grey then tinged 

 rufous, margin thin, quite entire ; stem about 2 in. long, 

 3 lines thick, almost equal, or slightly thickened at each 

 end, curved or twisted, compressed, glabrous, rather polished, 

 pallid, or in large specimens blackish-brown ; sp)ores broadly 

 elliptical, 5 x 3-4 /x. 



Hygropliorus ovinus. Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 15; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 934b. 



Agaricus ovinus, Bull., Champ., t. 580. 



In mossy pastures, also in woods. 



Closely allied to H. metapodius, smell almost the same; 

 v^ery fragile, but differing in the rigid, fragile, very thin 



