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connected by veins ; stalk spongy-stuffed, attenuated downwards, 

 smooth, naked. 



H. pratensis is common in pastures and on downs from autumn 

 till early winter. It is wholl}' light yellow-tavvny and almost 

 top-shaped. 



Edible, but without much flavour. 



91. Hygrophorus virgineus Fr. — Pileus fleshy, margin involute 

 when young, convex, then plane, at length depressed, often floccose 

 and widely fissured and cracked when dry; gills decurrent, distant, 

 rather thick ; stalk short, stuffed, firm, attenuated at base, becoming 

 even and naked. 



H. virgineus is small and a common inhabitant of pastures and 

 downs, growing in scattered groups in autumn and early winter. 

 The whole plant is white, hygrophanous, and brittle. 



Edible; taste like the "Fairy-ring Champignon." 



92. Hygrophorus ceraceus Fr. — Pileus convexo-plane, slightly 

 pellucid, striate, and viscid ; gills adnato-decurrent, almost triangular; 

 stalk hollow, unequal, flexuous, compressed, and smooth. 



H. ceraceus is a small and fragile species common in pastures 

 and woods and on downs, where it grows in numbers. The whole 

 plant is unchangeable waxy-yellow. 



93. Hygrophorus puniceus Fr. — Pileus viscid, deep, shining 

 blood-red, becoming variegated whitish-crimson in dry weather, 

 slightly fleshy, at first campanulate, then becoming flattened, irregular, 

 and lobed ; flesh blood-red, waxy ; gills ascending, ventricose, 

 adnexed, almost free, thick, distant, whitish-yellow or yellow-reddish 

 near the stem ; stalk solid, stout, then hollow, ventricose, striate, 

 squamulose at the apex, same colour as the pileus or variegated with 

 yellow, white at the base. 



H. puniceus is the largest and handsomest of the Hygrophori. 

 It is frequent in pastures and on downs. 



94. Hygrophorus conicus Fr. — Pileus varying in colour from 

 scarlet, through ochre, to whitish-sulphur, greenish, and livid, some- 

 times conical, acute, somewhat membranaceous, smooth, commonly 

 lobed, then expanded and cracked, viscid when moist, shining when 

 dry; flesh watery; gills attenuato-free, ventricose, thin, somewhat 

 crowded, white, sulphur-yellow, sometimes reddish near stem ; stalk 

 hollow, cylindrical, straight, fibroso-striate, extremely fragile. 



Very common in pastures and on downs, and changing to black 

 on being touched or broken. It commonly becomes jet-black soon 

 after maturity, though occasionally, in dry weather, individuals do 

 not change colour, but remain permanently yellow or scarlet. 



95. Hygrophorus psittacinus Fr. — Pileus bright yellow, varie- 

 gated with a bright-green glutinous substance, campanulate, then 



