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others slightly adnexed with a decurrent tooth, thick, 

 ventricose, distant, distinct, projecting beyond the margin 

 of the pileus, white ; stem solid, or hollow at the apex, 

 compact, firm, tough, equal, 2-3 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, 

 rather wavy, glabrous, shining white ; spores elliptical, 

 5-6 x 3 p. 



Hygrophorus foniicatus, Fries, Epicr., p. 327 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 296 ; Cke., Illnstr., pi. 993. 



Among grass and moss. 



Agreeing with H. pratemis in the structure of the pileus 

 and stem, but very different in the insertion of the gills, and 

 in being entirely white. Fries says that the base of the 

 stem is sometimes furnished with fuscous squamules. 



Hygrophorus (Camar.) distans. Berk. 



Pileus 1-1 *- in. across, flesh rather thin ; plane or depressed, 

 sometimes with an indication of an umbo, viscid, white with 

 a silky gloss, here and there stained with brown ; gills 

 adnate with a very slight tendency to become decurrent, 

 broad behind, very distant, pure white ; stem 1-1 i in. long, 

 2-3 lines thick, slightly attenuated and grey below, white 

 above, stuffed ; spores broadly elliptical, 10 x 8 p.. 



Hygrophorus distans, Berk., Outl., p. 200, t. 13, f. 1 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 296 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 902. 



In woods. 



A neat species with a regular pileus. Distinguished 

 among species with a white pileus by the very distant, 

 adnate gills. In Cooke's figures the stem is entirely white. 



Hygrophorus (Camar.) Clarkii. B. & Br. 



Pileus H-2 in. across, fragile, flesh thin, convex then 

 more or less plane, somewhat umbonate, smooth, margin 

 even, viscid, livid grey ; gills broadly adnate with a decurrent 

 tooth, up to 5 lines broad, thick, distant, white ; stem 2-3 in. 

 long, about 2 lines thick, equal, smooth, grey, base white, 

 often slightly bent, hollow; spores subglobose, smooth, 

 12 x 10 p. 



Hygrophorus ClarJcii, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., no. 1358 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 297 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 934A. 



In woods, &c. 



A very fine species, characterised by the livid grey stem 

 and pileus, the very broad, distant, adnate gills, and the 



