98 A CATALOGUE OF ESCULENT BRITISH FUNGI. 



Section. Flesh thin, brittle, translucent. Stem fistulose. Gills 

 yellowish, broad, distant, ventricose, venate, adnate or sub-decur- 

 rent. Odourless. Taste bland. Spores white. 



Obs. It is eaten in Germany, and may be pronounced of second-rate quality. 

 — ir. D. II. 



(94.) HYGROPHORUS COCCINEUS ; The Scarlet-Hood. 



Habitat. In grassy places. In scattered gToups. 



Seasoji. August to November. Common. 



Pileus. One to two inches across, scarlet above, shading into 

 orange and yellow below; obtuse, conical, campanulate, expanding, 

 sub-umbonate, perhaps inverted, or splitting from centre ; thin, 

 viscid in wet, hygrophanous, smooth, undulate. 



Stem. One to two inches high, yellow, streaked with scarlet, 

 thick, smooth, flexuose, tough, easily split, naked. 



Section. Flesh thin, fragile, coloured, translucent. Stem hollow. 

 Gills yellow or red, broad, ventricose, wrinkled, venate, thick, 

 denticulato-decurrent. Odourless. Taste agreeable. Spores 

 white. 



Ohs. It is a commendable esculent. But sundry of the untested species may 

 be mistaken for it. — JT. D. H. 



(95.) HYGROPHORUS EBURNEUS ; The Ivorine. 



Habitat. On the ground under trees, in the shade. Scattered. 



Season. September to November. Not very common. 



Pileus. Two to three inches across, ivory-white, lustrous, 

 smooth, viscid in wet ; hemispherical at first, then plane, sub- 

 umbonate, pcrha])s concave. Margin at first involute, entire, even. 



Stem. One to three inches high, ivory-white, unequal, punctate 

 above with minute brown scales, naked. 



Section. Flesh thin, white, elastic. Stem stuffed, at length 

 hollow. Gills ivory white, straight, distant, firm, adnate or sub- 

 decurrent. Odour pleasing. Taste agreeable. Spores white. 



Obs. I have placed it in chapter vii., as being highly commendable. — W. D. H. 



(96.) HYGROPHORUS NIVEUS ; The Snowdrop. 

 Habitat. Mossy lawns, pastui'cs, and banks. In groups. 

 Season. September and October. Common. 



