No. 8.] [February, 1873. 



A MONTHLY EECOED OF CEYPTOGAMIC BOTANY, 

 AND ITS LITEEATUEE. 



BRITISH FUNGI. 



By M. C. Cooke. 

 (Continued from y. Ill J 



Hygrophorus limacinus. Fr. " Slimy Hygrophorus." : 



Pileus fleshy, convex, then plane, smooth, glutinous, umber, then 

 fuliginous ; margin paler ; stem solid, firm, ventricose, fibrilloso- 

 striate, viscid, squamulose above ; gills rather thin, white, then 

 cinereous.— Fr. Epicr. p. 324. B. $- Br. Ann. N. H., No. 1277. 

 Paul, t. 77, /. 3. 



In woods, &c. St. Leonards. 



Hygrophorus caprinus. Fr. " Streaky Hygrophorus." 



Pileus fleshy, fragile, conical, then flattened, and umbonate ; at 

 length depressed, subrepand, moist, streaky, as well as the stem, 

 which is solid, fibrillose, fuliginous ; gills deeply decurrent, thick, 

 scarcely distant, white, then glaucous. — Fr. Epicr. p. 326. B. 4' Br. 

 Ann. N.H., No. 1278. 



In pine woods. Near Bath. 



Hygrophorus turundus. Fr. Epicr. p. 330. Ag, svpwbus, Lasch in 

 Lhm. iii. No. 118. 



Var. mollis. — B. $• Br. Golden yellow ; pileus nearly plane, 

 at length slightly depressed, clad with short radiating soft hairs of 

 the same colour ; stem equal, stuffed ; gills distant, arcuate, decur- 

 rent.— B. 4" Br. Ann. N.H., No. 1279. 



In plantations on the naked soil. Coed Coch. Oct. 



Pileus ^-| in. across ; stem 1-1^- in. high, 1-2 lines thick ; gills 

 narrow. 



Hygrophorus irriguus. Fr. " Moist Hygrophorus." 



Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, somewhat 

 umbonate, even ; stem fistulose, equal, tough, smooth, viscid, livid ; 

 gills rather decurrent, somewhat distant, whitish. — Fr. Epicr. 

 p. 329. B. & Br. Ann. N.H., No. 1280. 



In grassy pastures. Laxton, Norths. Oct. 



