HYGROPHORUS. CLITOPILUS 309 



distinctly virgate with black fibrils. St. 4-7 cm. x 6-10 mm., yellowish, 

 striato-virgate with fuscous fibrils, equal. Gills citron yellow, sinuate, 

 broad, ventricose, rather thick, distant. Flesh citron yellow. Spores 

 white, elliptical, "10-12 x 6-7 /A" Sacc. Mossy meadows. July. 

 Uncommon. 



958. H. unguinosus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 168, fig. 2. Unguinosus, oily. 

 P. 3-6 cm., smeared with dense fuliginous gluten, slightly fleshy, 



campanulate, then convex, obtuse, very fragile, even, or at length 

 rimosely incised. St. 5-9 cm. x 5-10 mm., concolorous, glutinous, 

 attenuated at the base and apex, unequal, somewhat compressed. 

 Gills shining white becoming glaucous, adnate, very ventricose, dis- 

 tant, thick, broad, connected by veins. Flesh greyish. Spores white, 

 broadly elliptical, 9 x 7/x, with a large central gutta. Woods, and 

 pastures. Aug. Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



959. H. obscuratus Karst. Obscuratus, darkened. 

 P. 3-4 cm., sooty, or livid blackish, mouse colour when dry, fragile, 



convex, obtuse, dry, squamulose. St. 4-6 cm. X 4-8 mm., pallid, 

 centre often tinged smoky, unequal, usually inflated below, wavy, 

 glabrous. Gills whitish, or glaucous, sinuato-adnate. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 7-10 x 3-5/A. Pastures. Sept. Rare. 



960. H. nitratus (Pers.) Fr. Nitratus, nitrous. 

 P. 16 cm., fuscous-cinereous, becoming pale, scarcely fleshy, very 



fragile, convex, obtuse, or depressed in the centre, at first slightly 

 viscid, soon flocculose, then squamulose, or fibrillosely striate, rimosely 

 incised, irregularly shaped, somewhat repand. St. 2-5-10 cm. x 2- 

 12 mm., whitish, grey, or yellowish, equal, often twisted, fragile, some- 

 times compressed, base attenuated. Gills whitish, then becoming 

 glaucous, broadly emarginate, broad, distant, thick, mucid-soft, con- 

 nected by veins. Flesh grey, darker under the cuticle of the pileus. 

 Spores white, pip-shaped, 6-7 x 4-5/x,, 1-guttulate. Smell strong, 

 nitrous. Pastures, and heaths. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. glauco-nitens Fr. y\avtc6<;, pale green ; nitens, shining. 



Stiff. P. olivaceous black, or fuliginous, becoming pale, streaked with 

 St. equal, shining. Gills becoming glaucous. Mixed woods. 

 Aug. Rare. 



Spores pink. 



ClitopUus Fr. 

 (/c\/T05, a slope; 77-1X09, cap.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular, or irregular. Stem central fleshy. Gills de- 

 current. Spores pink, elliptical, fusiform, globose, oblong, angular, 

 smooth, or verrucose, continuous. Growing on the ground. 



