86 AGARICINI. 



Hygro- 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, equal, even, smooth, pallid light 

 phorus. yellow, becoming white when dry, very fragile, here and there 

 flexuous. Gills deeply decurrent, somewhat distant, egg-yellow. 



It is certainly different from H. ceraceus, which is somewhat like it, in the 

 colour being wholly bright citron-yellow, whitish when dry, in the margin of 

 the pileus and in the deeply decurrent gills. 



In pastures. Penzance. 



Name — vitellus, yolk of egg. Egg-yellow. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 312. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 417. Icon. t. 167./. 3. B. & Br. n. 2020. 



41. H. ceraceus Fr. — Pileus about 2.5 cent. (1 in.) broad, 

 waxy-yellow, shining, slightly fleshy, thin, but slightly firm, 

 convexo-plane, obtuse, slightly pellucid-striate, viscid. Stem 

 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) and more long, about 4 mm. (2 lin.) 

 thick, hollow, often unequal, flexuous and at length compressed, 

 even, smooth, of the same colour as the pileus, never darker at 

 the apex. Gills ad?iato-decurrent, broad, almost triangular, dis- 

 tinct, yellow. 



Fragile ; easily distinguished from others by its waxy (not changeable) 

 colour. Growing in troops. The gills are by no means emarginato-adnexed 

 and ventricose as in the similar, but more watery and sulphur-coloured H. 

 chlorophanus. Like neighbouring species it vanes very much in stature. 



In woods and pastures. Common. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, 7x4 mk. K. ; 6 x 4 mk. W.G.S. Name — cera, 

 wax. From the colour. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 138. Hym. Eur. p. 417. Berk. 

 Out. p. 20T. C. Hbk. n. 568. S. My col. Scot. n. 534. Ag. Wulf, in 

 Jacqu. Coll. ii. /. 15. f. 2. Sow. t. 20. 



42. H. coccineus Fr. — Pileus 2.5-5 cent - ( I_2 in -) an d more 

 broad, at first bright scarlet, then soon changing colour and be- 

 coming pale, slightly fleshy, convex, then plane and often un- 

 equal, obtuse, at first viscid and even, smooth, not floccoso-scaly ; 

 flesh of the same colour as the pileus. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 

 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, hollow, then compressed and rather even, 

 not slippery, scarlet upwards, always yellow at the base. Gills 

 wholly adnate, decurrent with a tooth, plane, distant, connected 

 by veins, watery-soft as if fatty, when full grown purplish at the 

 base, light yellow i?i the middle, glaucous at the edge. 



Flesh of the pileus descending into the gills and forming a trama of the 

 same colour. Fragile. Varying in stature, easily mistaken for some of the 

 following species which are of the same colour. Pileus at length becoming 

 yellow. 



In pastures. Very common. Aug.-Nov. 



Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, 6-8x4-5 mk. K. ; 4x8-7 mk. W.G.S. Name 

 1 — coccine?is, of scarlet colour. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 139. Hym. Eur. p. 417. 



