308 HYGROPHORTTS 



crowded. Flesh concolorous, becoming black. Spores white, broadly 

 elliptical, 10-11 x 7-8 /A, with a large central gutta. Pastures, heaths, 

 roadsides, and woods. July Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



954. H. calyptraeformis Berk. (= Hygrophorus amoenus (Lasch) 



Quel.) Cke. lUus. no. 916, t. 894. 



KoXvTrrpa, a woman's veil; forma, shape. 



P. 3-10 cm., pink, becoming pallid, thin, campanulate, acutely 

 conical, lobed below, then expanded and revolute, minutely innato- 

 fibrillose, moist. St. 6-12 x 1 cm., white, often with a rosy tinge within 

 the p., striate, brittle, often splitting longitudinally, easily separating 

 from the pileus. Gills rose coloured, at length pallid, acutely attenu- 

 ated behind, distant. Flesh of pileus pink, of stem white. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 7-8 x 5/z, 1-guttulate. Pastures, heaths, and woods. 

 Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. niveus Cooke. Cke. Illus. no. 917, t. 923. Niveus, snow-white. 

 Differs from the type in being entirely snow-white. Pastures, and 

 lawns. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



955. H. chlorophanus Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 41. 



^Xtpo9, pale green; <f>aiva), I appear. 



Entirely rich yellow, becoming pale, rarely scarlet, fragile. P. 3-5 cm., 

 submembranaceous, convex, then plane and depressed, obtuse, 

 orbicular, lobed, at length cracked, viscid, often striate. St. 3- 

 8 cm. x 4-8 mm., equal, often compressed, viscid, sometimes sulcate 

 in the middle. Gills white, then sulphur yellow, emarginato-adnexed, 

 very ventricose, thin, distant. Flesh yellow, deeper coloured under the 

 cuticle. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 7-8 x 5-6/A. Taste mild. 

 Edible. Pastures, heaths, and woods. July Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



956. H. psittacinus (Schaeff.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 42. 



i/rtTTa/eo<?, a parrot. 



P. 2-5 cm., green at first from the gluten, then yellowish, whitish, or 

 brick colour, and finally purplish, campanulate, then expanded, 

 umbonate, striate. St. 4 7 cm. x 4 7 Tarn.., green at first from the gluten, 

 which is persistent at the apex, then yellowish, equal, often bent, 

 toughish. Gills yellow, greenish at the base, adnate, ventricose, thick, 

 broad, subdistant. Flesh white, tinged with green and yellow. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 8-9 x 4-5/z. Taste mild. Edible. July Nov. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



957. H. spadiceus (Scop.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 168, fig. 1. 



ffTrdSiJ;, date-brown. 



P. 1-6 cm., olivaceous date-brown, black and shining when dry, 

 fragile, campanulate, then expanded, obtuse, or acute, very glutinous, 



