338 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



* Gills adnexed, then becoming free. 



Hygrophorus (Hygro.) puniceus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, flesh very thin, at first campanulate, 

 obtuse, usually wavy and lobed, very irregular, even, gla- 

 brous, viscid, deep crimson or blood-red, becoming pale, espe- 

 cially at the disc when old, or in dry weather ; flesh simi- 

 larly coloured, fragile ; gills ascending, ventricose, 2-4 lines 

 broad, thick, distant, yellowish- white or pale yellow, often 

 tinged with red at the base, insertion various, but from the 

 form of the pileus, ascending, and appearing to be free ; stem 

 about 3 in. long, |-1 in. thick, solid when young, then hol- 

 low, very stout, not compressed, ventricose or attenuated at 

 both ends, striate, apex generally squamulose, when dry yel- 

 lowish or colour of the pileus, base always white, and often 

 incurved ; spores elliptical, 8 x 5 //.. 



Hygrophorus puniceus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 21 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 302 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 922. 



In mossy pastures, &c. 



The largest species of the genus, and very showy. Com- 

 monly confounded with H. coccineus, but very distinct in the 

 larger size, adnexed gills, and striate stem with a white base. 

 (Fries.) 



Hygrophorus (Hygro.) obrusseus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, rigid and fragile, flesh very thin, 

 campanulate then expanded, wavy, somewhat lobed and often 

 lacerated, obtuse, dry, even, glabrous, golden-sulphur colour ; 

 gills adnexed, ventricose, but at length seceding from the 

 stem and becoming free, very broad, up to | in. thick, dis- 

 tant, whitish ; stem 2-3 in. long, ^ in. thick," broader when 

 compressed, scarcely ventricose, sulphur-yellow, base becom- 

 ing tawny, ascending, usually uneven, glabrous, hollow ; 

 spores elliptical with an oblique apiculus, 10-12 x 7 p.. 



Hygrophorus obrusseus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 21 ; Cke., Il- 

 lustr., pi. 906. 



Grassy places in woods. 



Not to be confounded with bleached forms of H. puniceus. 

 When growing always golden-sulphur, not red. The gills 

 are much more rigid and firmer than in allied species. 

 (Fries.) 



