306 HYGROPHORUS 



yellow. Spores white, subglobose, 67 x 5-6/z, verrucose. Amongst 

 short grass, and moss. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. lepidus Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. xm, 1. 1, fig. 2, as Hygrophorus 



lepidus Boud. Lepidus, charming, 



P. 1-5-4 cm., brilliant golden orange, becoming paler, disc deeper 



colour, convex, umbilicate, minutely squamulose, or hirsuto-tomentose. 



St. 5-7 cm. x 2-3 mm., concolorous, slightly incrassated upwards. 



Gills pallid, slightly tinged with the colour of the pileus at the base, 



deeply and abruptly decurrent, thick, distant. Flesh of stem orange, 



paler elsewhere. Spores white, oblong-elliptic, 9-10 x 5-6/x. Woods, 



and bogs. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



946. H. mucronellus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 905, t. 937, fig. B. 



Mucronellus, having a little sharp point. 



P. 2-8 mm., scarlet, or yellow, then pale, becoming hoary, acutely 

 conical when small, when larger campanulate, obtuse, then expanded, 

 pellucidly striate when moist, somewhat silky when dry. St. 2-4 cm. 

 x 1-2 mm., concolorous, white at the base, flexuose, subattenuated 

 downwards, somewhat silky. Gills yellow, decurrent, thick, triangular. 

 Flesh concolorous. Spores white, globose, 3 x 2 3/x. Amongst moss 

 and short grass in pastures, and heaths. Aug. Dec. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



947. H. micaceus B. & Br. Micaceus, like mica. 

 P. 812 mm., light yellow, becoming cinereous, hemispherical, like a 



small Leotia lubrica, glittering with micaceous granules, wrinkled. St. 

 1820 x 2-3 mm., light yellow, then brown towards the base, granulated. 

 Gills pallid umber, decurrent. Flesh yellowish, somewhat brownish 

 under the cuticle of the pileus. Spores white, subglobose, 4 x 3/x, 

 1-guttulate. On bare earth, and clayey soil. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



948. H. Wynniae B. & Br. (= Omphalia bibula Quel.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 911, t. 905, fig. A. Mrs Lloyd Wynne, of Coed Coch. 



Entirely lemon-yellow, hygrophanous. P. 1-2-5 cm., thin, hemi- 

 spherical, umbilicate, or somewhat infundibuliform, pellucidly striate. 

 St. 3-4-5 cm. x 1-3 mm., attenuated upwards from the white, swollen, 

 strigose base. Gills decurrent, narrow, thin. Spores white, broadly 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 6/*. Smell foetid when decayed. On fir needles, twigs, 

 chips, and stumps. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



**Gills adnexed, somewhat separating. 



949. H. puniceus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 912, t. 922. 



Puniceus, blood-red. 



P. 5-11 cm., blood-red scarlet, becoming pale with age especially at 

 the fleshy disc, campanulate, obtuse, generally repand, or lobed, very 



