HYGROPHOBTJS 303 



934. H. irrigatus (Pers.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 168, fig. 3. 



Irrigatus, bedewed. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., livid, becoming dingy white as the gluten separates, 

 fragile, campanulate, expanded, obtuse, viscid, margin striate. St. 

 5-8 cm. x 2-4 mm., livid, very viscid, equal, tough. Gills white, or 

 grey, adnate with a decurrent tooth, subdistant, wide, fragile, rather 

 thick, connected by veins. Spores white, "elliptical, 6-7 x 4/n" 

 Massee. Fir woods, grassy places, and pastures. Oct. Nov. Un- 

 common. 

 III. Veil none. Whole fungus thin, watery, succulent, fragile. 



P. viscid when moist, shining when dry, rarely floccosely 



squamose. St. hollow, soft, not punctate. Gills soft. Most of the 



species brightly coloured, and shining. 



*Gills decurrent. 



935. H. Colemannianus Blox. Cke. Illus. no. 904, t. 903, fig. A. 



W. H. Coleman. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., reddish umber, paler when dry except in the centre, 

 subcampanulate, then expanded, strongly umbonate, striate when 

 moist, and slightly viscid. St. 2-54 cm. x 24 mm., white, very 

 slightly tinged with umber, nearly equal, brittle, fibrous, somewhat 

 silky. Gills umber, paler than the pileus, deeply decurrent, rather 

 broad, distant, interstices veined and rugose. Flesh white, tinged 

 with umber under the cuticle of the pileus. Spores white, broadly ellip- 

 tical, 6-8 x 6/x. Pastures, and hillsides. Oct. Nov. Not uncommon. 

 (t>.*) 



936. H. sciophanus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 167, fig. 1. 



(TKid, shade; fyaivw, I appear. 



P. 1-4 cm., deep tawny, or brick colour, becoming paler when dry, 

 opaque, hemispherical, then expanded, obtuse, slightly viscid, some- 

 what fleshy; margin paler, striate. St. 3-7-5 cm. x 2-6 mm., tawny 

 yellowish, or paler, equal, flexuose, viscid. Gills of the same colour as 

 the pileus, or yellowish, attenuato-adnate, distant. Flesh yellowish, 

 reddish near the cuticle. Spores white, elliptical, 8-9 x 4-5 /z. Amongst 

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



937. H. sciophanoides Rea. Cke. Illus. no. 905, t. 937, fig. A, as 

 Hygrophorus sciophanus Fr. 



Sciophanus, the species H. sciophanus; etSo9, like. 

 P. 1-3 cm., rosy pink, campanulate, then expanded, striate to the 

 disc, interstices paler, subumbonate, or papillate, membranaceous, 

 fragile. St. 2-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., concolorous, equal, base white. Gills 

 pale pink, uncinato-adnate, broadest in front. Flesh pale yellow, 

 becoming white. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 4/n. Heaths, and 

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



