HYGROPHORUS. 77 



flexuous. The stem varies curved, flexuous, &c. The squamules take the place Hygro- 

 of the veil. phorus. 



In fir woods. Forres. Glamis. Sept.-Nov. 



Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, hyaline, 8x5 mk. K. Name — ayaOSs, good ; 

 6o>»7, scent. From the agreeable scent. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 129. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 411. -S. Mycol. Scot. n. 520. Gonn. 5f Fab. viii.-ix. /. ij. f. 4. 



16. H. mesotephrus B. & Br. — Pileus about 2.5 cent. (1 in.) 

 broad, white, disc brow?i, convex, somewhat hemispherical, viscid, 

 striate, the extreme margin often remaining quite even ; flesh 

 white, hygrophanoiis. Stem about 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 4 mm. 

 (2 lin.) thick, stuffed with a fibrillose pith, slender, flexuous, 

 attenuated at the base, white, viscid, floccoso-grannlated at the 

 apex. Gills shortly decurrent, moderately broad, ventricose, 

 rather distant, pure white. 



A very delicate species, allied to H. fusco-albus, but with a very different 

 habit. In age the lower part of the stem is slightly stained, but by no means 

 squamose. 



In woods. Rare. Bowood. 



Spores 9 mk. long. B. df Br.; elliptical, pruniform, 10-12 mk. Q. Name 

 — /u.eo-05, middle ; Tempos, ash-coloured. From the dark disc. B. £f Br. Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vol. xiii. t. 15./. 2. Berk. Out. p. 198. C. Hbk. n. 555. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 411. 



17. H. livido-albus Fr. — Pileus livid, unicolorous, fleshy, thin, 

 obtuse, even, smooth, viscid, margin naked. Stem stuffed, slender, 

 equal, rather even. Gills decurrent, distant, distinct, shining 

 white. 



It differs from H. eburneus not only in the livid colour but also in the 

 slightly viscous pileus as well as stem being even, smooth. It approaches the 

 Camarophylli. 



In woods. Street. Oct. 



Name — from the livid pileus and white gills. Fr. Hym. Etir. p. 412. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 131. B. if Br. n. 1357. Ag. Ft. Dan. t. 1907./". 2. 



II. — Camarophyllus. 

 * Gills deeply and at length obconically decurreiit. 



18. H. caprinus Fr. — Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) and more 

 broad, at first blackish-fuliginous, or blackish, at length cinereous- 

 fuliginous, but varying azure-blue, &c, fleshy, at first conico- 

 convex, often with a prominent acorn-shaped umbo, then flattened 

 or depressed, obtuse, somewhat repand, at the first slightly viscid, 

 streaked with fibrils j flesh soft, fragile, thin towards the margin 

 which is at length repand. Stem 7-S~ l ° cenl - (3~4 in lon §"> 4 



