294 HYGROPHORUS 



when bruised, or rubbed, equal, or attenuated at the base. Gills 

 whitish, washed with flesh colour, decurrent, somewhat distant. Flesh 

 yellowish. Spores white, elliptical, 8-11 x 6/x., with a large central 

 gutta. Taste bitter, then sometimes slightly acrid. Coniferous woods. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



899. H. pudorinus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 877, t. 911. 



Pudorinus, modest. 



P. 5-9 cm., bright reddish flesh colour, disc deeper coloured, convex, 

 then depressed, viscid; margin white, pubescent. St. 5-8 x 1-5-3 cm., 

 white, or flesh colour, firm, viscid; apex contracted, rough withfloccose 

 granules. Gills white, flesh colour near the edge, adnate, wide, thick, 

 often crisped. Flesh white, rose colour under the cuticle of the pileus. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 67 x 4-5/z. Smell very pleasant, taste 

 sweet. Edible. Coniferous woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



900. H. glutinifer Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 878, t. 889. 



Gluten, glne;fero, I bear. 



P. 59 cm., rufescent, whitish round the margin, convexo-expanded, 

 thin with the exception of the gibbous disc, pellicle glutinous, disc 

 wrinkled dotted. St. 7-10 x 1-1-5 cm., concolorous, apex white- 

 squamulose, somewhat elastic, ventricose downwards, with a viscid veil. 

 Gills shining white, or pale grey, arcuato-decurrent, rather thick. 

 Spores white, clavate, 9-10 x 7/t, 3-guttulate. Taste mild. Woods. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



901. H. persicinus Beck. Persicinus, pertaining to a peach. 



P. 5 cm., peach colour, or somewhat orange, conical, then hemi- 

 spherical, shining, even; margin incurved. St. 10 x 2cm., pale 

 lilac-peach colour, base yellowish, constricted below the gills. Gills 

 fuscescent, adnato-decurrent, edge very obtuse. Spores 15-20 x 5 6)ti. 

 Amongst grass in woods. Rare. 



***Tawny, or light yellow. 



902. H. arbustivus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 879, t. 896, fig. A. 



Arbustivus, belonging to plantations. 



P. 3-10 cm., slightly tawny-brick colour, paler round the pubescent 

 margin, convexo-plane, obtuse, umbonate, somewhat repand, viscid, 

 disc streaked with innate fibrils. St. 4-9 cm. x 6-15 mm., pale white, 

 elastic, cylindrical, viscid, apex covered with white, free, mealy granules. 

 Gills white, adnate, scarcely decurrent, distant, thick. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 8 x 4-5/z, 2-guttulate. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. 

 Woods. Sept. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



