HYGROPHORUS 307 



irregular, viscid. St. 7-11 x 12-5 cm., concolorous, or light yellowish, 

 base always white, attenuated at both ends, often incurved, striate, 

 apex often squamulose. Gills white-light-yellow, or yellow, often reddish 

 at the base, ascending, appearing free, ventricose, broad, thick, distant. 

 Flesh concolorous. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 6-7 x 5/x, with 

 a large central gutta. Taste mild. Edible. Woods, heaths, and pas- 

 tures. July Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



950. H. nigrescens Quel. (= Hygrophorus puniceus Fr. var. nigrescens 



(Quel.) Massee.) Nigrescens, becoming black. 



P. 510 cm., white, then citron or jonquil yellow, streaked with pink- 

 ish, or orange fibrils, becoming grey and silky and finally black, campanu- 

 late, scalloped, lobed. St. 5-7 x 1-2 cm., citron yellow, streaked with 

 orange, base white, substriate, wrinkled, splitting, tough. Gills 

 cream, or citron yellow, orange at the base, then grey, becoming black. 

 Flesh orange, white in the stem, becoming black; juice becoming lilac 

 colour on exposure to the air. Spores white, elliptical, 11-13 x 6-7 /n. 

 Heaths, and pastures. Sept. Rare, (v.v.) 



951. H. obrusseus Fr. o/3pvov, pure gold. 

 P. 5-12 cm., golden-sulphur-yellow with a tinge of green, campanu- 



late, then expanded and somewhat revolute, lobed and often split- 

 ting at the margin, obtuse, fragile, shining. St. 5-11 x 1-3-5 cm., 

 sulphur yellow, becoming tawny at the base, often compressed, unequal. 

 Gills white, tinged with yellowish green towards the base, adnexed, at 

 length separating, free, very broad, 10-12 mm., distant, thick. Flesh 

 concolorous. Spores white, elliptical, 8-9 x 5-6/z, 1-2-guttulate. 

 Woods, and pastures. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



952. H. intermedius Pass. Intermedius, intermediate. 

 P. 3-5-5 cm., golden yellow, becoming greyish, or bright orange, very 



thin, campanulate, then expanded, obtuse, or subumbonate, fibril- 

 losely-silky; margin often wavy. St. 4-7-5 cm. x 6-9 mm., yellow, 

 equal, fibrillosely-striate. Gills whitish, then yellow, adnate, ventricose, 

 distant. Spores white, elliptical, 8-9 x 6/u,. Smell of meal. Road- 

 sides, grassy places, and damp ground. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



953. H. conicus (Scop.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 40, as var. nigrescens Boud. 



Conious, conical. 



P. 3-6 cm., scarlet, yellow, tawny, sulphur-greenish, livid, or fuli- 

 ginous-light yellow, becoming black, submembranaceous, campanulate, 

 conical, acute, often lobed, then expanded and cracked, viscid when 

 moist, shining when dry. St. 6-9 cm. x 4-9 mm., concolorous, or 

 yellow, becoming black, cylindrical, tense and straight, fibrillosely- 

 striate. Gills white, or yellow, sometimes reddish at the base, becoming 

 black when bruised, attenuato-free, ventricose, thin, somewhat 



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