HYGBOPHOBUS 297 



white, tinged with pink, decurrent, broad, sometimes forked, very 

 distant. Spores white, elliptical, 8 x 4 /A. Smell like that of cherry 

 laurel leaves. Fir woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



*****Fuscous cinereous, or livid. 



911. H. fusco-albus Fr. Fuscus, dark; albus, white. 



P. 4-8 cm., fuscous, then cinereous, convexo-plane, then depressed, 

 moderately firm, viscid ; margin white-floccose. St. 5-12 cm. x 8- 

 15 mm., white, equal, when dry white-floccose at the apex. Gills snow- 

 white, decurrent, broad, rather thick. Flesh greyish white. Spores 

 white, pip-shaped, 7-8 x 5/t, 1-guttulate. Woods, and amongst grass 

 under conifers. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



912. H. agathosmus Fr. (= Hygrophorus cerasinus Berk. sec. Quel.) 

 Gonn. & Rabenh. vm-ix, t. 11, fig. 4. 



dya66s, good; 007477, scent. 



P. 4-7 cm., livid grey, unicolorous, dotted with minute, raised, 

 crowded, viscid, pellucid, whitish papillae, convex, then plane, gibbous, 

 viscid ; margin at first involute, villose, at length reflexed, and undu- 

 lated. St. 512 cm. x 6-15 mm., white, equal, or slightly thickened 

 downwards, somewhat fibrillosely striate, granularly farinose at the 

 apex, the squamules at length becoming cinereous. Gills shining white, 

 decurrent, distant, 6-8 mm. wide, soft, somewhat veined at the base. 

 Flesh watery whitish, soft. Spores white, pip-shaped, 8-9 x 4 5/u.. 

 Smell very pleasant. Coniferous woods. Sept. Nov. Not uncom- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



913. H. pustulatus (Pers.) Fr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 13. 



Pustulatus, blistered. 



P. 2-5 cm., livid grey, disc fuscous, broken up into papillae, convex, 

 then expanded, umbonate, viscid. St. 3*5 4-5 cm. x 5-13 mm., white, 

 rough with black points, equal, or fusiform. Gills white, sometimes 

 glaucous, adnato-decurrent, 5-6 mm. wide, distant, soft. Spores 

 white, ovoid pruniform, 8-9 x 5/x. Fir woods. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



914. H. mesotephrus B. & Br. 



/ieo-09, middle; Tempos, ash-coloured. 



P. 2-3 cm., white, disc brown, convex, somewhat hemispherical, 

 viscid, striate, the extreme margin often remaining quite even. St. 

 5 cm. x 4-6 mm., white, often stained yellowish, flexuose, attenuated 

 at the base, viscid, floccoso-granulated at the apex. Gills pure white, 

 shortly decurrent, moderately broad, ventricose, rather distant. 

 Flesh white, hygrophanous. Spores white, elliptical, somewhat pointed 

 at the one end, 9 x 6/i. Woods. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



