HYGROPHORUS 295 



903. H. discoideus (Pers.) Fr. Gonn. & Rabenh. vm-ix, t. 10, fig. 4. 



Ster/eo9, disc; etSo?, like. 



P. 2-5-6 cm., pale yellowish inclining to pale, disc darker, somewhat 

 ferruginous, campanulate, then plane, obtusely umbonate, very glutinous. 

 St. 4-6 cm. x 6-10 mm., pale white, viscid, fiocculose, apex with white 

 dots. Gills pale yellowish white, or flesh colour, adnate, decurrent, dis- 

 tant, soft. Flesh under the cuticle of the umbo ferruginous, yellowish 

 white, or flesh colour elsewhere. Spores white, elliptical, 6-9 x 5/x, 

 1-guttulate. Woods. Oct. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



904. H. aureus (Arrh.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 166, fig. 2. Aureus, golden. 

 P. 2-4 cm., bright golden yellow, becoming reddish, convex, then 



plane, glutinous. St. 46 cm. x 6 mm., becoming tawny, apex white 

 pruinose above the glutinous, ring-like, fugacious, tawny-reddish veil. 

 Gills white, or yellowish, adnato-decurrent, distant. Flesh white, or 

 pale ochraceous. Spores white, elliptical, 8-10 x 5-6/z. Woods. Nov. 

 Rare. 



905. H. aromaticus (Sow.) Berk. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 144. 



apcofjMTiKos, fragrant. 



P. 5-8 cm., cinnamon, convex, then expanded and plane, very 

 fragile, glutinous, the gluten in drying sometimes contracting and 

 forming raised, anastomosing ribs. St. 3-5 cm. x 4-8 mm., concolorous, 

 sub-equal. Gills white, with a pink tinge, slightly decurrent, 2-3 mm. 

 broad. Flesh bruising blackish. Smell spicy, taste like peppermint, 

 acrid. Amongst grass. Rare. 



****01ivaceous umber. 

 H. latitabundus Britz. = Hygrophorus Clarkii (B. & Br.) W. G. Sm. 



906. H. limacinus Fr. Saund. & Sm. t. 28. Limacinus, slimy. 

 P. 46 cm., disc umber, then fuliginous, margin paler, convex, then 



plane, obtuse, viscid. St. 5-8 x 1-1-5 cm., white, greyish, or bistre, 

 firm, ventricose, viscid, fiocculose, fibrilloso-striate, apex squamulose. 

 Gills white inclining to cinereous, or yellowish, adnate, then decurrent, 

 subdistant. Flesh firm, white. Spores white, elliptical, 12 x 8/x. 

 Amongst leaves in woods. Oct. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



907. H. squamulosus Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. iv, t. 6. 



Squamulosus, covered with little scales. 



P. 57 cm., yellow olivaceous, disc fuscous, convex, then expanded, 

 subumbonate, glutinous, floccosely squamulose beneath the gluten, 

 tomentose at the incurved margin over the base of the gills. St. 6- 

 8 x 1-52 cm., concolorous, apex white, mealy, equal, or enlarged 

 downwards, glutinous. Gills white, 5-10 mm. wide, sinuato-adnate, 



