HYGROPHORUS 305 



nected by veins, trama red. Flesh concolorous. Spores white, ellip- 

 tical, 8-11 x 5-6 //,. Woods, and pastures. June Dec. Common. 



943. H. miniatus Fr. (= Hygrophorus fiammans (Scop.) Schroet.) Cke. 



Illus. no. 910, t. 921, fig. A. 



Miniatus, coloured with red-lead. 



P. -5-2 cm., vermilion, then becoming pale, and opaque, convex, 

 often umbonate, then umbilicate, glabrous, or squamulose. St. 3 

 5 cm. x 2-4 mm., vermilion, shining, equal, round. Gills yellow, or 

 yellow-vermilion, adnate. Flesh reddish, then yellow. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 6-7 x 4-5/A, 1-guttulate. Heaths, pastures, and peat bogs. 

 June Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



944. H. Reai Maire. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 11. 



Carleton Eea. 



P. 1-5-2-5 cm., scarlet, fleshy, thin, convex-campanulate, then 

 plane; margin orange yellow, or yellow, slightly striate when moist; 

 no separable pellicle. St. 3-6 cm. x 2-3 mm., orange scarlet to yellow, 

 base whitish, viscid, shining, somewhat tough. Gills flesh colour, then 

 orange, edge whitish, then yellow, broadly adnate with a decurrent tooth, 

 broad, thin, unequal. Flesh orange. Spores white, elliptical, apiculate, 

 7-8 x 3-5-4-5/u, 2-guttulate. Cystidia none. Taste bitter. In woods, 

 and pastures. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



945. H. turundus Fr. Turunda, a kind of sacrificial cake. 

 P. 1-2-5 cm., yellow, or tawny, variegated with cinereous-fuscous 



squamules, slightly fleshy, sometimes viscid at first, convex, then 

 expanded, umbilicate, or depressed; margin often elegantly crenate. St. 

 3-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., tawny-reddish, rigid-fragile, attenuated at the 

 base. Gills white, then cream colour, decurrent, narrow, 1-2 mm. wide, 

 distant. Flesh yellowish, or reddish. Spores white, elliptical, 8-1 1x5- 

 6/x, 1-2-guttulate. Heaths, pastures, and peat-bogs. July Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. mollis B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 910, t. 921, fig. B. Mollis, soft. 

 Golden. P. 12-18 mm., nearly plane, at length depressed, clad with 

 soft, short, radiating hairs of the same colour. St. 2-5-3 cm. x 2-4 mm., 

 equal. Gills whitish, decurrent, narrow, distant. Flesh yellow. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 8 x 4/i. Woods, and pastures. July Oct. More 

 common than the type, (v.v.) 



var. sphaerosporus Rea. crfyalpa, a ball; <nropd, seed. 



P. 18 mm., reddish, covered with golden yellow fibrils, plane, then 



depressed. St. 3-4 cm. x 3-5 mm., reddish, base white, slightly in- 



crassated upwards. Gills white, decurrent, distant. Flesh bright 



R. B. B. 20 



