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560. Hygrophorus piratensis . Fr, " Pasture Hygrophorus." 



Pileiis convexo-plane, then tarbinate, smooth, moist, disc com- 

 pact, gibbous, margin thin ; stem stuffed, even, attenuated down- 

 wards ; gills deeplydecurrent, arcuate, distant, thick. — Fr. Epicr. 

 p.^'21. Fl.Dan.t.mbJ.l. Grev.t.^. Krombh.t. 4tS,f. 7 -10. 

 Bull. t. 587,/. 1. Sow. 1. 141. Bolt. t. 56. Huss. ii. t. 40. Eng. 

 Fl. Y.p. 39. Gard. Chron. (1861),;?. 289. Berk. exs. no. 123. 



On downs and short pastures. Aug. — Nov. Esculent. 



Pileus 1-2 in. broad, at length spreading towards the margin, but leaving 

 the centre more or less convex, as if umbonate, glabrous, margin often 

 cracked, frequently contracted or lobed, buffish-reddish, or brownish ; flesh^ 

 whitish, thick in the centre, thin at the margin ; gills thick, distant, decur- 

 rent, connected by veins, separable from the flesh of the pileus. Stem 1-2 

 in. high, 3-8 lines thick, whitish, attenuated towards the base.— (^/-er. Spores 

 •00023 X -00015 in. 



961. Hygrophorus virgineus. Fr. " Satin-white Hygro- 



phorus." 



Pileus fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, moist, at length areolato- 

 rimose ; stem stuffod, firm, short, attenuated at the base ; gills 

 decurrent, distant, rather thickened. — Fr. Epicr. p. 327. Grev. 

 t, 166. Jacq. Misc. ii. 1. 16, f. 1. Sow. t. 32. Bull. t. 188. Bait. t. 

 19, H. Price.f.U. B at sch. f. 200. var. Eng.Fl.Y.p.2,9. Kromhh. 

 ^ 25,/. 1-3. Smith, E.II.f. 23. 



On downs and short pastures. Common. Esculent. 



Pileus 1 in. or more broad, slightly viscid when raoist, and shining as if 

 oiled, with a satiny lustre when dry, white, sometimes with a tinge of yellow 

 or pink, various in shape, sometimes umbonate, often quite plane or de- 

 pressed, frequently obconic, margin more or less thin and transparent. Gills 

 broad, distant, with very prominent connecting veins, adnato-decurrent, 

 sometimes forked above. Stem 2 in. long, 1-2 lines thick, under a lens 

 fibrillose, sometimes pulverulento-squamulose at the apes, stuffed, the centre 

 fibrous, at length more or less hollow, white, with sometimes a tinge of pink 

 at the base. Taste like 2Iaras/nius oreades. — M.J.B. 



562. Hygrophorus niveus. Fr. *' Snow-white Hygrophorus." 



Tough. Pileus submembranaceous, campanulato-convex, then 

 umbilicate, smooth, moist, striate, viscid ; stem fistulose, thin, 

 equal ; gills decurrent, thin, arcuate, distant. — Fr. Epicr. p, 327. 

 Schceff. t. 232. Krombh. t. 25,/ 1-3. 



In mossy pastures. Common. 



Stem equal, 2 in. long, 1-2 lines thick, even, smooth, straight. Pileus 

 scarcely an inch broad, striate and viscid when moist, not rimose when dry. 

 Flesh of the pileus thin, everywhere equal, white, hygrophanous. Gills dis- 

 tant, thin, scarcely connected by veins, arcuate, quite entire. 



