88 AGARICINI. 



Hygro- very much, becoming hoary, slightly fleshy, when smaller acutely 

 ru! " conical, when larger campanulate and obtuse, then expanded, when 

 moist pellucidly striate, when dried somewhat silky, but never 

 squamulose. Stem about 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) 

 thick, fistulose, thin, somewhat attenuated and white at the base, 

 otherwise yellow, even, smooth, flexuous. Gills ascending, dis- 

 tant, very broad and adnate behind with a very broad base, some- 

 what decurrent, yellow. 



Fragile. The smallest of species of the same nature. 

 In grass field. King's Lynn. Dec. 



In ' Hym. Eur.' Fries describes the stem as somewhat silky. Name 

 mucro, a sharp point. From its acute form. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 140. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 418. Grevillca, vol. iv. p. 118. 



** Gills adnexed, somewhat separating. 



46. H. puniceus Fr. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, glitter- 

 ing blood-scarlet, in dry weather and when old becoming pale 

 especially at the disc, slightly fleshy for its breadth, at first 

 campanulate, obtuse, commonly repand or lobed, very irregular, 

 even, smooth, viscid ; flesh of the same colour, fragile. Stem 7.5 

 cent. (3 in.) long, 1-2.5 cent. ( l / 2 -i in.) thick, solid when young, 

 at length hollow, very stout (not compressed), ventricose (attenu- 

 ated at both ends), striate, and for the most part squamulose at 

 the apex, when dry light yellowish or of the same colour as the 

 pileus, always white and often incurved at the base. Gills 

 ascending, ventricose, 4-8 mm. (2-4 lin.) broad, thick, distant, 

 white-light yellow or yellow and often reddish at the base. 



The largest of the group, and very handsome. It certainly differs from 

 H. coccineus, for which it is commonly mistaken, in stature, in the adnexed 

 gills, and in the white base of the striate stem. The attachment of the gills 

 varies, but from the form of the pileus they ascend to the base of the cone and 

 appear free. 



In pastures. Frequent. July-Nov. 



Name puniceus, blood-red. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 141. Hym. Eur. p. 419. 

 Sv. atl. Sv. t. 77. Berk. Out. p. 201. B. & Br. n. 1281. C. Hbk. n. 571. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 538. Ag. Fl. Dan. t. 883. Bolt. t. 67. /. 2. 



47. H. obrusseus Fr. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 golden-sulphur-yellow, shining, not becoming pale, very thinly 

 fleshy, rigid-fragile, campanulate then expanded, flexuous, some- 

 what lobed and often torn, obtuse, dry, even, smooth. Stem 

 7.5 cent. (3 in.) and less in length, 12 mm. ()4 in.) thick or when 

 compressed still broader, but scarcely ventricose, stout, ascending, 

 compressed and commonly unequal, quite smooth, even, sulphur 



