198 AGARICINI. 



557. Hygrophoius hypothejus. Fr. *' Pine- wood Hygro- 



phorus." 



Pileus fleshy, clothed with thin olive evanescent gluten, some- 

 what virgatc ; stem stuffed, equal, somewhat spotted, viscid ; gills 

 distant, yellowish. — Fr. Epicr. p. 324. Krombh.t. 72, f. 24-25. 

 Sow. t. 8. A. ^' S. t. 10, /. 3. Buxh. iv. t. 2. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 14. 



In pine woods, on sandy soil. 



Pileus 1-4 in. broad, flesliy, at first conic, obtuse, at length expanded, and 

 depressed round the umbo or even infundibuliform, covered with a thick 

 dark gluten, yellow towards the margin and beneath the gluten, the ex- 

 treme margin turned in. Flesh yellow, deeper towards the margin. Gills 

 adnato-decurrent, yellow, sometimes varying to a flesh-coloured tint, dis- 

 tinct, distant. Stem 1^-3 in. high, 2-9 lines thick, flexuous, stufl'ed above, 

 fibrillose below, slimy, submaculate, yellow. Odour fungoid, rather dis- 

 agreeable. -3/./, ^. Spores -00049 X -00017 in. 



558. Hygrophorus olivaceo-albus. Fr, "Olive Hygro- 



phorus." 



Pileus fleshy, even, clothed with evanescent olivaceous gluten, 

 umbo brown ; stem solid, equal, at first with a floccose ring, 

 spotted with dark scales, viscid, even above ; gills white. — Fr. 

 Epicr. p. 824:. Schwff.t.SU. Eng. Fl. Y.p. Id. 



In woods and woodland pastures. 



Pileus 2-3 in. broad, at first conic, then expanded, and broadly umbonate, 

 livid olive brown, varied with tints of yellow and umber, very viscid; flesh 

 thin on th<^ margin, which is turned in, minutely downy, sometimes slightly 

 grooved or striate. Gills adnate, scarcely decurrent, white, in decay green- 

 ish yellow, sometimes ventricose, veiny. Spores white, elliptic with a dis- 

 tinct border. Stem l\-2h in. high, \-\ in. thick, generally curved, fibrous 

 within, above granulato-fibrillose, pitted, covered with milky drops. Ring 

 in general indistinct ; sometimes the margin of the viscid veil which clothes 

 the rest of the stem, marking it with irregular dark blotches, is visible; 

 base of stem yellow.— J/. /. B. Spores -00018 X -00027 in . 



Sect. 2. Camarophyllus. 



559. Hygirophorus leporinus. Fr. " Hare-coloured Hygro- 



phorus." 



Pileus equally fleshy, convex, gibbous, equal, fibrilloso-floc- 

 cose, opaque ; stem stuffed, short, firm, attenuated, fibrillose, 

 pallid; gills decurrent, reddish-grey. — Fr. Epicr. p. 326. Batt. 

 Bt.d. Schceff.t.SlS. Ann. N. IT. no. 7 00. 



On downs. Sept. Durdham Downs. Kent. 



Stem rigid, 2 in. long. Pileus 1-2 in. broad, cuticle splitting into flocci, 

 colour tawny, reddish yellow, &c. The spores have a pale umber tint, nearly 

 globose, and about "0002 in. diameter. 



