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III. HYGROCYBE (vypos, moist ; K^, a head). Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 101. Hygro- 

 Veil none. Whole fungus thin, watery succulent, fragile. Pileus viscid phorus. 

 when moist, when dry shining, rarely floccoso-scaly. Stem hollow, soft, not 

 punctate. Gills soft. Most of the species brightly coloured and shining. 



This group presents the type of the genus, and clearly differs from the 

 A gar id; from the rest of the Hygrophori it might easily be separated as a 

 genus by itself. 



* Gills decurrent. 

 ^* Gills adnexed, somewhat separating. 



I. LlMACIUM. 



* White or yellowish white. 



1. H. chrysodon Fr. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, white, 

 shining when dry, but commonly yellowish with minute adpressed 

 squamules at the disc, light yellovj-flocculose at the involute mar- 

 gin, fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, viscid ; flesh white, some- 

 times reddish. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, about 12 mm. 

 (Yz in.) thick, stuffed, soft, somewhat equal (sometimes, however, 

 irregularly shaped or thickened at the base), white, with minute 

 light yellow squamules, which are more crowded and arranged in 

 the form of a ring towards the apex. Gills decurrent, distant, 

 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, thin, white, somewhat yellowish at the edge, 

 sometimes crisped. 



Odour not unpleasant. There is a manifest veil, not woven into a continu- 

 ous ring, but collected in the form of floccose squamules at the apex of the stem 

 and the margin of the pileus. Var. leucodon with white squamules. 



In woods. Rare. 



Name xpvo-ds, gold ; 6&>vs, a tooth. From the yellow tooth-like squamules. 

 Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 123. Hym. Eur. p. 405. Berk. Out. p. 197. C. Hbk. n. 

 550. Ag. Batsch f. 212. Gonn. & Rab. viii.-ix. t. io./. i. Var. with shin- 

 ing white pubescence B. & Br. n. 1356*. 



2. H. eburneus Fr. Wholly shining white. Pileus fleshy, 

 sometimes thin, sometimes somewhat compact, convexo-plane, 

 somewhat repand, even, very glutinous in rainy weather, margin 

 soon naked. Stem sometimes short, sometimes elongated, stuffed 

 then hollow, unequal, glutinous like the pileus, rough at the apex 

 with dots in the form of squamules. Gills decurrent, distant, 

 veined at the base, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) broad, tense and straight, 

 quite entire. 



Odour mild, not unpleasant. Very changeable. The veil is absent, unless 

 the very plentiful gluten which envelops the stem be regarded as a universal 

 veil ; margin of the young pileus involute, only at the first pubescent, soon 

 naked. The stem is soft internally, at length hollow, attenuated towards the 

 base. 



In woods and pastures. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



