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Eemarkable for its bright gold-coloured pileus, and adnate ventricose gills. 

 ~B. d' Br. 



Pileus 2-3 in. broad, flexuous, sub-lobate; stem tbicfe, ascending, com- 

 pressed, 3 in. long, 2 in. thick, or broader when compressed, sulphur-coloured, 

 tawny at the base. 



573. Kygrophorus conicus. Fr, " Conical Hygrophorus." 



Fragile; pileus snbmembranaceous, conical, acute, smooth, 

 somewhat lobed, at length expanded, and rimose ; stem hollow, 

 cylindrical, fibroso-striate; gills attenuated, free, ventricose, 

 thin, rather crowded. — Fr.Epicr. p. 331. Schceff. t. 2. Sow. t. 

 S81. Batsch. f. 28. Bull. t. 60, 624, f. S. Eng. Fl. y. p. 4.0. 

 Smith. P.M.f. 2. 



In pastures. Common. [Low. and Mid. Carolina.] 



Pileus 1-2 inches high, acutely conic, variously waved and lobed, fibrillose, 

 viscid when moist or young, juicy, turning black, as does the whole plant 

 when broken or bruised, orange, yellow, scarlet, brown, dusky, &c., various 

 colours often blended together; gills thick, fleshy, ventricose, attenuated be- 

 hind, free or adnesed. yellowish with frequently a cinereous tinge ; stem 3-4 

 in. long. 2-4 lines thick, often splitting, fibrilloso-striate, coloured like the 

 pileus.- J/. J.B. Spores -OOOi X -00025 in. (Fig. 49.; 



574. Hygrophorus chlorophanus. Fr. " Sulphury Hygro- 



phorus." 



Fragile ; pileus submembranaceous, convex, obtuse, somewhat 

 lobed, striate; stem hollow, equal, even, viscid ; gills adnexed, 

 ventricose, thin, rather distant, becoming whitish. — Fr. Epicr.p. 

 332. B. ^' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 933. Kromhli. t. 3,/. 6, 7. 



Amongst grass and moss. King's Cliffe. 



Stem hollow, equal, rarely compressed, 2-3 in. long, 2-3 lin. thick, smooth, 

 viscid when moist, shining when dry, yellow; pileus about 1 in., usually 

 bright sulphur-yellow, sometimes red, viscid ; gills emarginate, adnexed, 

 with a small decurrent tooth. 



575. Hygrophorus psittacinus. Fr. " Parrot Hygrophorus." 



Pileus thin, campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, somewhat 

 striate, clothed with green evanescent gluten, as well as the hol- 

 low, tough, even stem ; gills adnate, ventricose, thick, distant, 

 gvQQmsh.—Fr. Epicr. p. 332. Schcsff. t.dOl. Grev. t. 74. Bull, 

 t. 545,/. 1. Batt. t. 21, E. Sow. t. 82. Huss i. t. 41. Eng.Fl. v. 

 p. 39. Gard. Chron. I860,;;. 240. Vent. t. 42,/. 1-3. 



In fields, &c. Common [Mid. Carolina.] 



Pileus 1 in. broad, conical, at length spreading, sometimes concave from 

 the margin turning up, smooth, glutinous, green at first, partly changing to 

 yeQow of various intensity, often cracking ; gills slightly adnate, bright 



