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minute white down, divided into little linear heaps by the pressure of 

 the gills in the early stage of growth j gills broad, decurrent, white, with a 

 slight tinge of ochre or flesh colour, thick, very distant, some of them forked. 

 Stem 1-2 in. high, 2-6 lines thick, white, solid, generally attenuated below, 

 punctato-squamulose above. Odour pleasant, Like cherry laurel leaves.— 

 M. J. B. 



554. Hygrophorus aromaticus. B. "Aromatic Hygro- 



phorus." 



Very tender ; pileus flesliv, smooth, cinnamon, glutinous ; 

 stem stuffed, then hollow, reticulated ; gills pinkish, decurrent 

 when young. — Berk. Outl.p. 198. Sow. t. 1-4-i. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 14. 



Smell agreeable, spicy. Not found since the time of 

 Sowerby. 



Pileus 2-3^ in. broad, fleshy, generally covered with a thick glutinous skin, 

 which becomes corrugated in drying, cinnamon, blackish, like the rest of 

 the plant when bruised ; gills pinkish. Stem ii-3 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, 

 hollow, and pithy. Whole plant when fresh so tender that it is difficult to 

 gather. Odour agreeable, spicy. Taste watery, with a peppermint-like 

 coolness in the mouth, and a lasting roughness in the throat. — >Sb(';. 



555. HygropLorus xnesotephrus. B. J^' Br. "Brown-disc 



Hygrophorus," 



Pileus convex, subhemispherical, hygrophanous, white, with 

 a brown disc, striate, viscid, as well as the slender stuffed stem, 

 which is floccoso-granulated above ; gills decurrent, pure white. 

 — Ann. N.H. ser. ii. xiii. 1. 16, f. 2. Be?'l\ Outl.p. 198. 



In woods. Rare. Bowood. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, convex, subhemispherical, white, with the disc 

 brown, viscid, striate, the extreme margin often remaining quite even; flesh 

 white, hygrophanous ; stem about 2 in. high, 2 lines thick, flexuous, attenu- 

 ated at the base, white, viscid, floccoso-granulated at the apex, stuS"ed with 

 a fibrillose pith. Gills pure white, moderately broad, rather distant, ventri- 

 cose, shortly decurrent. Spores "00035 in. long. In age the lower part of 

 the stem slightly stained. — B. d- Br. 



556. Hygrophorus arbustivus. Fr. " Wood Hygrophorus." 



Pileus fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, viscid, innato-virgate, 

 becoming tawny ; stem solid, naked, equal, elastic, incurved, 

 smooth, white, mealy above : gills adnate, distant, thick, firm, 

 vihite.—Fr. Eincr.p.3'2S. B. ^- Br. Ann. N.H. (1865), wo. 932, 

 1013. 



In woods, under birch, &c. Dec. "Wiltshire. 



Pileus 2 in., brick-red or red-brown, margin paler. Stem I5 in. and up- 

 ■wards. Gills scarcely decurrent. Odour and taste not unpleasant. 



