356 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



glabrous, flesh sometimes everywhere thick, at others thin 

 towards the margin, which is naked from the first, funda- 

 mental colour everywhere white, also the flesh, hut becoming 

 reddish all over, the pileus often blood or rose-red; gills 

 decurrent, distant, soft, white, variegated with red spots; 

 stem solid, sometimes short, about 2 in. long, robust, 1 in. 

 thick and attenuated upwards ; at other times elongated, 

 4 in. long, equal or attenuated at the base, flexuou?, with red 

 fibrils and red points at the apex ; veil absent. 



Hygrophorus erubescens, Fries, Mon., ii. p. 5; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 290 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 888. 



Under pines, &c., gregarious, often forming large, lax 

 circles. 



Hygrophorus (Lima.) pudorinus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, fleshy, convex then expanded, 

 obtuse, even, glabrous, viscid, vermilion flesh-colour (the 

 colour pure and not squalid, as in H. erubescens), the funda- 

 mental colour appears to be yellow ; margin naked, involute ; 

 flesh white; gills adnate, then decurrent, distant, distinct, 

 rather thick, white, not spotted; stem solid, 2-3 in. long, 

 -J- in. thick, glabrous, whitish, constricted at the apex, rough 

 with white points ; spores elliptical, 8 x 4 /*. 



Hygrophorus pudorinus, Fries, Epicr., p. 322 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 290 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 911. 



In fir woods. 



Colour approaching that of H. erubescevs, but allied to 

 H. eburneus. Veil absent. Pileus not pelliculose, sometimes 

 spotted with yellow, as is also the white flesh. (Fries.) 



Hygrophorus (Lima.) glutinifer. Fr. 



Pileus 24 in. across, fleshy at the disc, margin thin,, 

 convex then expanded, broadly gibbous, sometimes depressed, 

 disc with minute wrinkles or points, rufescent, whitish 

 towards the margin, with a thick pellicle of gluten ; gills 

 slightly decurrent, arcuate, about 2 lines broad, rather thick, 

 white; stem 34 in. long, in. thick at the widest part, 

 slightly ventricose below the middle, rather elastic, coloured 

 like the pileus or paler upwards, and with white squamules, 

 viscid from the veil, stuffed. 



HygropJiorous glutinifer, Fries, Epicr., p. 322 ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 889; Cke., Ildbk., p. 290. 



