82 AGARICINI. 



Hygro- below, and attenuated, not spotted. Grills decurrent, few, very 

 phorus. distant, somewhat ventricose, pure white then tinged with cine- 

 reous, interstices obscurely rugose. 

 Often umbilicate. Remarkable for the few and distant gills. 

 In woods. Rare. King's Cliffe. 



Name from the distant gills. Berk. Out. p. 200. /. 13. / i. C. Hbk. n. 

 564. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 415. 



31. H. Clarkii B. & Br. Pileus livid-cinereous, convex, some- 

 what umbonate, viscous, margin even. Stem hollow, of the same 

 colour as the pileus. Gills adnate, broad, when larger nearly 12 

 mm. (Yz in.) broad, distant, thick, white. 



Fragile. 



In pastures. Street. Perth Fungus Show. Sept.-Oct. 



Name after J. A. Clark. B. & Br. n. 1358. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 527. Fr. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 415. 



32. H. metapodius Fr. Pileus 4-7.5 cent. (iX~3 in.) broad, 

 cinereous-/^m>zAy, compactly fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, at 

 first even and slightly shining, then silky and squamulose, irregu- 

 lar; flesh 12 mm. ( l / 2 in.) thick, pallid-grey, reddish when broken 

 and at length becoming black. Stem 2.5-5 cent - ( I-2 in-) long". 

 12 mm. (/4 in.) and more thick, stuffed, attenuated downwards, 

 unequal, ascending, smooth, cinereous, reddish internally. Gills 

 variously adnate (for the most part arcuato-decurrent behind, or 

 broadly emarginate), distant, thick, veined, about 6 mm. (3 lin.) 

 broad, grey-white. 



Odour of new meal, taste mild. In respect of its flesh being compact, red- 

 dish when broken and at length becoming black, and its thick juicy gills, it is 

 very analogous with Russula nigricans. There is a var. paradoxa appearing 

 among taller mosses; stem elongated to 10 cent. (4 in.), wholly fusiform, 

 pileus smaller, regular and villous, gills obconico-decurrent as in H. pratensis. 



In old pastures. Street, 1871. Glamis, 1876. Aug.-Nov. 



Name from the stem (TTOVS) being as it were upside down (/uera). Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. /. 135. Hym. Eur. p. 415. B. dr" Br. n. 1359. S. Mycol. Scot, 

 n. 528. 



33. H. ovinus Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, fuscous, slightly 

 fleshy, campamilate then expanded, somewhat umbonate, at first 

 slightly viscid and even, then dry and squamulose, at length 

 revolute, undulated, rimosely incised ; flesh only 4 mm. (2 lin.) 

 thick, rigid-fragile. Stem about 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 6 mm. (3 lin.) 

 thick, somewhat stuffed, somewhat equal or slightly thickened at 

 both ends, curved or twisted, compressed, smooth, slightly shin- 



