298 HYGROPHORT7S 



915. H. livido-albus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 888, t. 915. 



Lividus, livid; albus, white. 



P. 4-7 cm., livid, umbo bistre, with darker streaks, convex, viscid. 

 St. 6-10 cm. x 6-10 mm., grey, becoming yellowish downwards, equal, 

 or attenuated at the base, fibrillosely striate. Gills shining white, 

 decurrent, distant. Flesh greyish when moist, white when dry, often 

 tinged with yellow in the stem. Spores white, elliptical, 10-11 x 5-6 jit, 

 multi-guttulate. Woods. Oct. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



II. Veil none. St. even, smooth, or fibrillose, not rough with dots. 

 P. firm, opaque, moist in rainy weather, not viscous. Gills 

 distant, arcuate. 



*Gills deeply, and at length obconically decurrent. 



916. H. camarophyllus (A. & S.) Fr. (= Hygrophorus caprinus (Scop.) 

 Fr.) Cke. Illus. no. 889, t. 916, as Hygrophorus caprinus Scop. 



tca^dpa, a vault; <j)v\\ov, a leaf. 



P. 3-10 cm., blackish-fuliginous, or blackish, at length cinereous- 

 fuliginous, but varying azure-blue, convex, then plane and depressed, 

 sometimes more or less umbonate, especially when young, firm, moist, 

 or dry, more or less radiately streaked with innate fibrils, pellicle hardly 

 separable ; margin at first white, pruinose, incurved, then expanded, 

 revolute, concolorous and undulating. St. 4-8 x 1-1-5 cm., fuliginous, 

 equal, or attenuated downwards, longitudinally fibrillose, apex finally 

 whitish, base white, pubescent. Gills white, becoming glaucous, or 

 grey, deeply decurrent, distant, 58 mm. wide, thick, connected by 

 veins. Flesh white. Spores elliptical, slightly apiculate at the one 

 end, 6-9 x 4-5/u., multi-guttulate. Smell strong, like that of Corti- 

 narius purpurascens, taste mild, slightly sweet. Heaths and pastures 

 under firs. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



917. H. leporinus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 891, t. 931, as Hygrophorus 

 nemoreus Fr. Leporinus, belonging to a hare. 



P. 3-6 cm., yellow-rufescent, varying fuscous, equally fleshy, convex, 

 gibbous, fibrilloso-fioccose, firm, opaque, margin scalloped, then split, 

 silky. St. 4-5 x 1 cm., whitish flesh colour, firm, rigid, attenuated 

 commonly downwards, more rarely upwards, fibrillose, base white. 

 Gills pale yellowish, decurrent, branched. Flesh reddish flesh colour. 

 Spores "pale umber, subglobose, 6-8 x 4-4-5/i" Sacc. Woods, and 

 downs. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



H. bicolor Karst. = Hygrophorus Karstenii Sacc. & Cub. 



918. H. nemoreus (Lasch) Fr. Nemoreus, belonging to a wood. 

 P. 3-8 cm., somewhat orange, equally fleshy, convex, then expanded, 



gibbous, at length depressed. St. 4-6 x 1-1-5 cm., pale, firm, squamu- 



