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decurre?zt, at first arcuate, then extended in the form of an inverted Hygro- 

 co?ie, very distant, thick, firm, brittle, connected by veins at the P horus - 

 base, very broad in the middle, of the same colour as the pileus. 



Very protean. Veil none. The flesh of the pileus is formed as it were of the 

 stem dilated upwards. The typical form resembles the Cantherelli. Every- 

 where becoming light yellow-tawny ; but varying with the stem and gills pale- 

 white. 



In pastures. Common. Aug.-Nov. 



Edible; very little distinctive flavour. Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, 6-10 x 

 4-6 mk. K. ; 5 x 4 mk. IV.G.S. Name — pratum, meadow. Found in 

 meadows. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 132. Hym. Eur. p. 413. Sv. all. Sv. t. 30. 

 Berk. Out. p. 199. C. Hbk. n. 560. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 523. Hnssey ii. /. 90. 

 Kg. Pers.—Fl. Dan. t. 1735./. 1. Grev. t. 91. Krombh. t. 43./. 7-10. Bull, 

 t. 587. Forms departing from the type : Bolt. t. 56. Sow. t. 141. Pers. 

 Myc. Eur. t. 28./. 1. Brig. t. 22. 



* H. cinereus Fr.— The thinner pileus and gills cinereous, 

 margin at length striate. Stem white. 



Otherwise as in H. pratensis. Spores ovoid-spherical, 6 mk. Q. Name — 

 from the cinereous colour. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 413. Sv. atl. Sv. t. 30 {two 

 upper Jig.) B. & Br. n. 1561. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 523. 



* H. pallidus B. & Br.— Pileus pallid, infundibuliform, mar- 

 gin undulated, deflexed. Stem dilated upwards, fibrilloso-striate. 

 Gills distant, decurrent, branched, pallid. 



Coed Coch. Oct. B. & Br. n. 1356*. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 413. 



22. H. fcetens Phill.— Pileus about 2.5 cent. (1 in.) broad, dark 

 brown, somewhat fleshy, convex then becoming plane, smooth, at 

 length broken up into squamules. Stem 2.5-7.5 cent. (1-3 in.) 

 long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, stuffed, attenuated downwards, shining, 

 clothed with transversely arranged fibrous scales, paler than the 

 pileus. Gills decurrent, distant, rather thick, somewhat of the 

 same colour as the pileus or paler, somewhat glaucous-pruinose. 



Fragile. Very fcetid, nauseous. The odour is very similar to that of 

 Thelephora fastidiosa. Not at all viscid. 



On the ground. Shrewsbury, 1878, 1884. Nov. 



Nearly related to H. micans. B. & Br. Name— fattens, stinking. Phill. 

 Grevillea, vol. vii. p. 74. B. & Br. n. 1780. 



23. H. virgineus Fr. Wholly white. —Pileus fleshy, convex 

 then plane, obtuse, moist, at length depressed, cracked into patches, 

 floccose when dry. Stem curt, stuffed, firm, attenuated at the 

 base, externally becoming even and naked. Gills decurrent, 

 distant, rather thick. 



Flesh sometimes equal, sometimes abruptly thin. Commonly confounded 



