302 HYGROPHORUS 



stained with red, adnate, or arcuato-decurrent, distant, thick, veined, 

 broad. Flesh pallid grey, reddish when broken and at length becoming 

 black. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 7-8 x 6/n, with a large central 

 gutta. Smell of new meal, taste mild. Old mossy pastures. Oct. 

 Jan. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



931. H. ovinus (Bull.) Fr. Hussey, Illus. Brit. Myc. n, t. 50. 



Ovinus, belonging to sheep. 



P. 4-5 cm., fuscous, campanulate, then expanded, somewhat umbo- 

 nate, at first slightly viscid, then dry and squamulose, at length revo- 

 lute, undulated, rimosely incised. St. 3-4 x -5-1 cm., pallid, or grey- 

 ish, subequal, or slightly thickened at both ends, curved, or twisted, 

 fibrillosely striate. Gills grey, then rufescent, arcuato-adnate, decur- 

 rent with a tooth, thick, broad, connected by veins. Flesh fragile, 

 grey, then tinged reddish, and finally black. Spores white, subglobose, 

 6 x 4-5^t. Smell strong, of new meal, taste mild. Pastures, and hill- 

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



932. H. connatus Karst. Connatus, born together. 

 P. 3-4 cm., grey, margin submembranaceous, convex, then plane, 



unequal, dry, silky, then smooth. St. 6-7 cm. x 4-5 mm., concolorous, 

 equal, silky fibrillose, apex farinose. Gills dark grey, decurrent, some- 

 what thick, distant, branched. Spores white, pip-shaped, 7-8 x 4- 5 /it. 

 Caespitose. Woods. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



933. H. subradiatus (Schum.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 902, t. 935, fig. A. 



Sub, somewhat; radiatus, rayed. 



P. 3-4 cm., white, livid, grey, or flesh colour, disc fuscous, sub- 

 membranaceous, convex, then expanded, slightly umbonate, radiato- 

 striate from the translucent gills. St. 4-5 cm. x 4-5 mm., pale, equal, 

 twisted, attenuated at the white base. Gills white, deeply decurrent 

 with a tooth, plane, ventricose, somewhat thin, distant, connected by 

 veins. Spores white, subglobose, 7-8 x 6 /A, with a large central gutta. 

 Heaths, and pastures. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. lacinus Fr. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 25, fig. 3, as Hygrophorus lacmus. 



Lac, varnish. 



P. 2-5 cm., lilac, then becoming pale, convex, umbonate, unequal at 

 the circumference, radiato- striate when moist, even when dry, shining, 

 disc often fibrillose, or squamulose. St. 3-5 cm. x 7-15 mm., white, 

 or greyish, often tinged with yellow at the base, narrowed at the base 

 and apex. Gills cinereous, plano-decurrent, thin, connected by veins, 

 subdistant. Flesh tinged with grey, yellowish at the base of the stem. 

 Spores white, subglobose, 7-8 x 6/1-, with a large central gutta. 

 Heaths, and pastures. Sept. Oct. More common than the type. 

 (v.v.) 



