76 Hygrophorus. 



* * Gills ventricose, sinuato-arcuate or plano-adnate. 



fornicatus, Fr. P. 2 5 cm. campan. then exp. even, glabrous, 

 viscid, white or livid ; g. sinuato-adnexed, thick, white ; s. 5 7 cm. 

 firm, equal, tough, glabrous, white ; sp. 5 6 x 3. 



Stem solid below, apex hollow. Pileus obsoletely umb. rather 

 wavy ; gills sometimes free, w r ith a decurrent tooth, not decurrent as 

 in H. virgineus. 



distans, B. P. 2 4 cm. exp. or depr. umbil. thin, viscid, white 

 with silky sheen, sometimes stained with brown; g. adnate, very 

 distant, white ; s. 3 4 cm. white above, rather narrowed and greyish 

 below ; sp. 10 x 8. 



[streptopus, Fr. Fragile, splitting. P. campan. exp. greyish 

 white ; g. sinuato-adnate, rather crowded, white ; s. hollow, rather 

 twisted, white. 



Clarkii, B. and Br. P. 3 5 cm. fragile, thin, exp. subumb. viscid, 

 livid grey ; g. adnate with decur. tooth, broad, thick, distant, white ; 

 s. 47 cm. grey, base white ; sp. subgl. 12 x 10. 



H. distans differs in white umbilic. p. 



metapodius, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. compact, exp. viscid then silky 

 squamulose, brownish ; g. arcuato-decur. thick, distant, greyish ; 

 s. 3 4 cm. glabrous, grey, reddish inside ; sp. 8 x 5. 



ovinus, Bull. P. 3 5 cm. thin, conical then exp. gibbous, viscid 

 then squamulose, fuscous; g. arcuato-adnate, connected by veins, 

 grey then rufescent ; s. 4 5 cm. glabrous, often twisted, pallid or 

 dark ; sp. 5 x 3 4. 



Differs from H. metapodius in thin p. subequal s. and thinner g. 



[connatus, Karst. P. thin, convexo-exp. unequal, dry, even, grey 

 then pallid, silky-white then glabrous ; g. decur. distant, branched, 

 narrow, grey ; s. solid, rather wavy, squamulose above, colour of p. ; 

 sp. 79 x 45. 



[flavus, Lamb. Smell like new meal. P. convex, exp. then 

 umbil. edge sublobed, glabrous, even, yellowish; g. adnexed with 

 decur. tooth, very broad, ventricose, distant, whitish ; s. equal, even, 

 cylindrical, colour of p. 



subradiatus, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. submembranaceous, subumb. 

 radiato-striate, brownish ; g. adnate with decur. tooth, thin, white ; 

 s. 3 6 cm. fistulose, glabrous, pallid ; sp. 8 x 5. 



Var. lacmus, Fr. P. platio-depr. lilac then pallid, disc sometimes 

 fibrillose ; g. grey. 



irrigatus, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. thin, campan. then exp. subumb. livid, 

 lubricous ; g. whitish, with a decur. tooth ; s. 4 7 cm. grey, very 

 viscid ; sp. 6 7 x 4. 



H. unguinosus differs in the sooty-grey gluten. 



