HYGROPHORUS 301 



arched, thick, very few, distant. Spores white, elliptical, 7-8 x 

 multi-guttulate. Smell very pleasant, like Russian leather. Edible. 

 Pastures, and heaths. Sept. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



**Gills ventricose, sinuato-arcuate, or plano-adnate. 



926. H. fomicatus Fr. Fornicatus, arched. 

 P. 2-55 cm., white, or pallid livid, campanulate, then expanded, 



obsoletely umbonate, subrepand, viscid. St. 5-8 cm. x 5-13 mm., 

 shining white, firm, tough, equal, subundulate. Gills white, almost 

 free, or sinuato-adnexed, thick, ventricose, distant, exceeding the margin. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 6 x 3-4/4. Pastures. Oct. Nov. Un- 

 common. (v.v.) 



927. H. clivalis Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 898, t. 933, as Hygrophorus forni- 

 catus Fr. Clivalis, belonging to hills. 



P. 3-4 cm., whitish, disc yellowish, campanulate, silky, umbonate, 

 becoming split, scalloped, thin, striate. St. 46 x 1 cm., white, fragile, 

 attenuated at the base. Gills pale ochraceous, sinuate, almost free, 

 ventricose, distant, wide. Spores white, elliptical, 6 x 3/x. Parks, and 

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



928. H. distans Berk. Berk. Outl. t. 13, fig. 1. 



Distans, being distant. 



P. 35 cm., white with a silky lustre, here and there stained with 

 brown, plane, or depressed, often umbilicate, viscid. St. 3-4 cm. x 5- 

 6 mm., white above, cinereous below and attenuated. Gills pure white, 

 then tinged with cinereous, decurrent, few, very distant, subventricose, 

 interstices obscurely rugose. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 10 x 8/a. 

 Smell sometimes pleasant, like the essence of almonds. Woods. Oct. 

 Rare. 



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



(Britz.) sec. W. G. Sm.) J. Aubrey Clark. 



P. 9-10-5 cm., opaque umber, or livid cinereous, margin white, obtuse, 

 convexo-plane, viscid. St. 4r-7 x 2-3 cm., white-squamulose above, 

 pale umber-scaly below, equal, or attenuated downwards, viscid. Gills 

 ivory-white, adnate, distant, broad, thick, veined. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 10 x Qfj,. Woods, and pastures. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



930. H. metapodius Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 901, t. 918. 



fierd, reversed; TTOU<?, foot. 



P. 4-8 cm., cinereous-fuscous, convex, then plane, obtuse, at first 

 viscid and slightly shining, then silky and squamulose, irregular. St. 

 410 x 1-2 cm., concolorous, attenuated downwards, sometimes 

 swollen at the base, fibrillosely striate. Gills dark grey, becoming 



