304 HYGROPHORTJS 



938. H. laetus (Pers.) Fr. (= Hygrophorus Houghtoni Berk. sec. Quel.) 

 Fr. Icon. t. 167, fig. 2. Laetus, cheerful. 



P. 2 3 cm., tawny, shining, convex, then flattened, obtuse, viscid; 

 margin almost membranaceous and slightly pellucid-striate. St. 

 3'5-7*5 cm. x 4 mm., concolorous, apex externally and internally 

 bluish green, equal, tough, viscid. Gills flesh colour, whitish, or fuli- 

 ginous, subdecurrent, distant, thin, somewhat connected by veins. 

 Flesh of the same colour as the pileus but paler. Spores white, elliptical, 

 7-9 x 4-5/Lt, 1-2-guttulate. Heaths, and hilly pastures. Sept. Dec. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



939. H. vitellinus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 167, fig. 3. 



Vitellinus, of yolk of egg. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., citron-egg-yellow, becoming white when dry, very thin, 

 convex, umbilicate, viscid; margin plicato-striate. St. 5 cm. x 2 mm., 

 pallid light yellow, becoming white when dry, equal, flexuose, fragile. 

 Gills yellow, then egg-yellow, deeply decurrent, subdistant. Spores 

 white, broadly elliptical, with an apiculus at one end, 8-9 x 6jii, with 

 a large central gutta. Woods, and pastures. Sept. Dec. Uncommon. 



940. H. citrinus Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 11. 



Citrinus, lemon yellow. 



P. 1-2 cm., citron yellow, convex, then plane, viscid; margin striate. 

 St. 1-2 cm. x 2-3 mm., citron yellow, apex white, base attenuated, 

 viscid. Gills whitish citron yellow, adnato-decurrent, somewhat 

 crowded, 2-3 mm. broad. Flesh concolorous. Spores white, elliptical, 

 apiculate at the one end, 7-7-5 x 5/*, 1-guttulate. Roadsides, and 

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



941. H. ceraceus (Wulf.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 39. Ceraceus, waxy. 

 P. 2-4 cm., waxy-yellow, shining, viscid, convexo-plane, obtuse; 



margin slightly striate, pellucid. St. 3-5 cm. x 4 mm., concolorous, 

 often unequal, flexuose, at length compressed, base attenuated, white. 

 Gills yellow, adnato-decurrent, broad, connected by veins, almost tri- 

 angular. Flesh concolorous. Spores white, elliptical, 6-8 x 4/x. Woods, 

 and pastures. Sept. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



942. H. coccineus (Schaeff.) Fr. (= Hygrophorus miniatus (Scop.) 



Schroet.) Boud. Icon. t. 38. Coccineus, scarlet colour. 



P. 26 cm., bright scarlet, soon changing colour and becoming yellow- 

 ish, convex, then plane, often unequal, obtuse, at first viscid. St. 

 5-7 cm. x 68 mm., concolorous, becoming yellowish, compressed, 

 base always yellow. Gills purplish at the base, light yellow in the middle, 

 glaucous at the edge, adnate, decurrent by a tooth, distant, broad, con- 



