200 AGAEICINI. 



5S3. Hygrophorus russo-coriaceus. B.^^Mlll. " Russian- 

 leather Hygropliorus." 



Sweet scented. Pileus very white, sliglitly viscid, convex, 

 fleshy ; stem slender, smooth, soUd ; gills broad, thick, arched, 

 decLirrent, very few, and distant. — Berk. Outl.j). 200. Anii.N.H. 

 no. 332. 



In exposed pastures. Bare. 



Pileus about \ in. broad, convex, fleshy, slightly viscid, ivory white. Stem 

 f-1 iu. high, not a line thick, incrassated upwards, smooth, solid, pure white; 

 gills thick, broad arched, decurrent, very few and distant, with a few shorter 

 ones intermixed. The whole plant exhales a strong musky smell like that of 

 Russian leather. — M. J. B. 



564. Hygrophorus distans. Berh. " Distant-gilled 



Hygrophorus." 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, plane or depressed, viscid, white, with 

 a silky lustre, here and there stained with brown ; stem white 

 above, cinereous below, and attenuated, not spotted ; gills few, 

 very distant, subventricose, decurrent, pure white at first, then 

 tinged with cinereous, interstices obscurely rugose. — Berk. Outl. 

 p. 200, t. 13,/. 1. Price./. 5. H. clivalis, Fr. Man. Hym. ii. j:>. 

 134. 



In woods. Eare. 



About 2 in. across, often umbilicate, remarkable for the few and distant 

 gills. 



665. Hygrophorus ovinus. Fr. " Sheep Hygrophorus." 



Pileus fleshy, thin, couico-convex, then expanded, gibbous, 

 viscid, then squamulose, brown ; stem slightly stufl'ed, smooth, 

 somewhat shining, thickened at either end ; gills arcuato-decur- 

 rent, connected by veins, white, then dingy, edge thin. — Fr. Epicr. 

 p. 328. Bull. t. 580. Huss. ii. t. 50. Ann. N.H. no. 262. A. com- 

 pressus. Sow. t. 66. ? 



In pastures. 



Stem about 2 in. long, 3 lin. thick, sub-equal, or sHghtly thickened at 

 either end, curved or twisted, compressed, smooth, pallid, or blackish-brown ; 

 pileus 2 in. broad, at length revolute, undulate. Gills 3 lin. broad. 



566. Hygrophorus Colemannianus. Blox. " Coleman's 



Hygrophorus." 



Pileus sub-carnose, umbonate, umber, turning pale except in 

 the centre, even, striate when moist, and slightly viscid. 8tem 

 nearly, equal, somewhat silky, whitish; gills rather broad, of the 



