204 AGARICINI. 



yellow, often shaded witli green, sub-distant, thick, broad in the centre j 

 stem 2-3 in. high, about 2 lines thick, hollow, splitting, green, yellow at the 

 base, very slimy. - Orev. Spores '0002 X -00028 in. 



576. Hygrophoxus calyptraeformis. B. ^^ Br, " Hood-like 



Hygrophorus." 



Pfleus thin, acutely conical, lobed below, minutely innato- 



fibrillose ; stem white, smooth, slightly striate, hollow ; gills 



rose-coloured, at length pallid, very narrow, acutely attenuated 



behind. — Berk. Outl p. 202. Mag. Zool. ^ Bot. no. 63. Trans. 



Woolh. C/. 1861,f. 21,/. 4-6. 



On the borders of woods and open pastures. Oct. 



Pileus acutely conic, lobed below, about 1 in. high, fin. broad at the base, 

 in unexpanded specimens moist, striate under a lens, with innate, but 

 raised fibi illse, rose-coloured, gradually turning pallid ; flesh rather thin ; 

 gills rose-coloured, at length pallid like the pileus, very narrow, and often 

 almost evanescent behind, though properly adnate, distinct ; stem 1 in. or 

 more high, pure white, except within the pileus, where i' has a slight roseate 

 tinge, brittle, often splitting longitudinally, remarkably smooth, slightly 

 striate, hollow, the walls fibrous within ; the young pileus has a great resem- 

 blance to the internal bractoea of an artichoke j ust before expansion. — AI. J. B. 

 Spores -0001 X "00015 in. 



577. Hygrophorus unguinosus. Fr. " Dingy Hygrophorus." 



Fragile. Pileus thin, campanulate, then convex, obtuse, even, 

 clothed with dingy gluten, as well as the hollow, unequal, sub- 

 compressed stem ; gills adnate, ventricose, plane, thick, white, 

 becoming glaucous. — Fr. Ej^icr. p. 332. Mag. Zool. ^' Bot. no. 

 62. 



In woods and pastures. Oct. 



Stem hollow, 2 in. long, 3 lin. thick, commonly attenuated towards either 

 end ; pileus smooth or at length cracked, about 2 in. broad ; gills thick, dis- 

 tant, connected by veins, broad. Inodorous. 



578. Hygrophorus murinaceus. Fr, " Mouse-coloured Hygro- 



phorus." 



Fragile, strong scented. Pileus thin, campanulate, then ex- 

 panded, irregular, viscid, soon dry, rimuloso-squamulose ; stem 

 nearly hollow, unequal, sub-compressed, even; gills adnate, sece- 

 ding, broad, distant, somewhat waved, white, then glaucous. — 

 Fr.Epicr.p.^^^. Bull. t. 620. Sow. 1. 106. KromOh.t. 72. Batt. 

 t. 19,/. A. 



In pastures. 



Stem twisted, equal but compressed, fragile, 2-3 in. long, 3-5 lin. thick, 

 polished, whitish ; pileus 2 in. broad, at first rather viscid, then squamulose, 

 growing pale j gills broadly emarginate, very broad, connected by veins. 



