HYGrtOriioRus. 339 



appear to be well marked, and if found again, its true 

 position can be settled. 



The agreeable spicy odour suggested its name ; it appears 

 to be A. gliiiinosus of Bulliard, though his gills ai'e colourless ; 

 a name applicable to many of the fungi (^and would do for 

 this were it not previou>ly engaged), as it is sometimes 

 altogether a gluten, or jelly. The pileus has generally a 

 thick glutinous skin of a cinnamon colour: the gills are 

 somewhat pinky; they appear to be decurrent in the young 

 state, but when advanced they separate, so as to appear 

 naturally loose and separate from the stipes, which is j«ome- 

 wliat hollow and I3ithy. The whole plant when fresh is often 

 so tender, I have not been able to gather it whole ; in bruising- 

 it becomes blackish. As the plant dries, the skin corrugates, 

 and often becomes very prettily reticulated (may not this be 

 A. reticulatus of Dr. AVithering, ed. iii., p. 289?) The taste is 

 watery, with a peppermint-like coolness in the mouth, and a 

 lasting roughness in the throat. (Sowerby.j 



*■*■** Olivaceous umhcr. 



Hygrophorus (Lima.) linaacinus. Fr. 



Pileus 1^-21 in. across, flesh rather thick, firm, white, 

 convex then expanded, obtuse, glabrous, viscid, disc umber 

 then smoke-colour, paler towards the margin : gills adnate, 

 then decurrent, rather distant, thin, greyish-white; stem 

 solid, firm, 2-3 in. long, -h in. thick, ventricose, flocculose, 

 fibrillosely striate, apex rough with squamules ; spores 

 elliptical, 12 x S jx. 



Hi/qrojyhorus limacinus. Fries, Epicr., p. 324; Ckc., Hdbk., 

 p. 292; Cke., Illustr., pi. 897. 



In woods. 



Intermediate between H. agcdliosmus and B". olivcfceo-cdbus ; 

 difiering from the former in the presence of an evident veil, 

 and from the latter in the squaniulose apex of the stem. 



Hygrophorus (Lima.) olivaceo-aibus. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-2 in. across, fleshy at the disc, very thin else- 

 where, obtusely cylindrical then expanded, umbonate, even, 

 covered with olive gluten that disappears, leaving the pileus 



