202 AGARICINl. 



Pileus 1-2 in. broad, at first obtuse, conico-campanulate, at lengtb in- 

 verted, sometimes strongly umbonate, splitting from the centre, yellow, 

 oransre or scarlet, viscid when moist, when dry pallid, appearing to the eye 

 fibrillose, but not really so, margin thin, more or less wavy. Gills broad, 

 ventricose, n-rinkled, thick, connected by veins, retaining their colour longer 

 than the pileus, adnate, with a decurrent tooth in depressed specimens. Stem 

 1-^- in. lowy. \ in. thick, more or less hollow, sub-flesuous, smooth, though 

 apparently sub-fibrillose, tough, but easily splitting. — M. J. B. Spores '00016 

 X -00027 in. 



570. Hygrophorus miniatus. Fr. " Vermilion Hygrophorus." 



Fragile. Pileus thin, convex, thin, umbilicate, vermilion, soon 

 dry, changing colour, opaque, and squamulose ; stem somewhat 

 stuffed, equal, polished, scarlet ; gills adnate, distant, yellow, or 

 yellowish vermilion.— Fr. Epicr.p. 330. Fl Dan. t. 1009,/. 2. 

 Kromhh. 1. 1,/. 29. Bull. t. 670, Jig. 2 {smaller figs). Eng. Fl. v, 

 p.41. 



In moist places, on heaths, &c. July. Aug. Common. 



Pileus |-1 in. broad, obtuse, even, moist but not viscid, turning pale; gills 

 not decurrent nor connected by veins, distant, broad, plane, yellow, with a 

 tinge of scarlet, or dull yellow; stem 2 in. high, 1 line thick, brittle, even, 

 shining, at length hollow at the apex. —i^ries. Spores "00023 X '00034 in. 



571. Hygrophorus puniceus. Fr. " Blood-red Hygrophorus." 



Fragile ; pileus fleshy, thin, campanulate, obtuse, repand, 

 even, viscid, blood-scarlet, then becoming pale ; stem hollow, 

 thick, ventricose, striate, white at the base ; gills adnexed, thick, 

 distant, yellow.— i^r. Epicr. p. 331. Fl. Dan. t. 883,/. 1. Bull, 

 t. 202. Bolt. t. 67, /. 2. Paul. 1. 120,/ 1, 2, 6. Tourn. t. 327,/. 

 A. B. Eng. Fl. v. p. 40. 



In meadows. July — Aug. 



Pileus 2-4 in. broad, at first campanulate, then plano-convex, broadly 

 and obtusely umbonate, even, undulated and lobed, irregular, when moist 

 subviscid, blood-coloured, when dry the centre becoming pale ; gills ventri- 

 cose, 2-4 lines broad, at length connected by veins, altogether adnate, but, 

 because of the form of the pileus, appearing free, yellow, varying to whitish- 

 yellow, and purplish at the base ; stem 3 in. long, |-1 in. thick, attenuated 

 at both ends, dry, striate, often squamulose at the apex, stufiied when young, 

 then hollow, yellowish, or of the colour of the pileus.— i^j-ie^. 



572. Hygrophorus obrusseus. Fr. '-Golden Yellow Hygro- 



phorus." 



Fragile, bright golden yellow; pileus fleshy, thin, conico-convex, 

 obtuse, flexuose, rather dry; stem hollow, sub-compressed, smooth, 

 even ; gills adnate, ventricose, thick, distant. — Fr. Epicr.p. 331. 

 Batt. t. 19, D. Bolt. t. 68. Ann.N.H.no. 798. 



In woods. Oct. Rare. Mossbumford. 



