256 AGARICACE^E Hygrophortis 



Typical species of the genus are best seen in Subgenus 3, 

 Hygrocybe. Species 1187 1228 



SUBGENUS i. LIMACIUM. Pikus glutinous. Universal veil viscid, with 

 occasionally a floccose partial veil which is annular or 

 marginal. Stem clothed with minute scales or rough with 

 dots above. Gills adnato-decurrent. 



White or yellowish-white. 1187 1190 



Reddish. 11911194. 



Tawny or light yellow. 1195 1198 



Olivaceous umber. 1199 1202 



Fuscous-cinereous or livid. 1203 1206 



SUBGENUS 2. CAMAROPHYLLUS. Veil none. Pileus firm, opaque, 

 moist in rainy weather, not viscid, except 1216, 1219, 1220 and 



1224, where the pileus is somewhat viscid. Stem even, 

 smooth or fibrillose, not rough with dots. Gills distant, 

 arcuate. 



Gills deeply and at length obconically decurrent. 1207 1217 

 Gills ventricose, sinuato-arcuate or plano-adnate. 1218 1224 



SUBGENUS 3. HYGROCYBE. Veil none. Pileus viscid when moist, 

 shining when dry, rarely floccoso-scaly. Stem hollow, except 



1225, 1228, stuffed in 1232, soft, not punctate. Gills soft. 

 Whole fungus thin and watery- succulent, fragile, mostly bright 

 coloured and lustrous. 



Gills decurrent. 12251234 



Gills adnexed, adnate in 1241 and 1243, broadly emarginate in 



1244, somewhat separating. 1235 1246 



SUBGENUS i. LIMACIUM. 

 (From the pileus and stem glutinous with the veil ; limax t a slug.) 



1187. H. ehrysodon Fr. (from the golden, tooth-like scales; Gr. 



chrusos, gold, odous, a tooth) a b c. White or sulphur-white. 

 P. convexo-plane or flat, yellow squamulose at mid. and marg. 

 St. stuffed, equal, colour as P., minutely yellow squamulose 

 above, sometimes imperfectly floccoso-annulate. G. decurrent, 

 distant, white with a faintly yellowish edge. 



Woods, lime, beech, under trees ; rare. Aug.-Nov. 2 x 3% X $ in. Var. 

 leucodon Stev., with shining- white pubescence. 



1188. H. eburneus Fr. (from its ivory-white colour ; ebur, ivory) a I c. 

 P. convexo-plane, flat, repand; marg. pubescent, soon naked. 



St. stuffed to hollow, equal or nearly so. G. adnato-decurrent, 

 distant. 



Said to be edible. Odour mild, sweetish, not unpleasant or none. Woods, 

 grassy roadsides, pastures ; frequent. Aug.-Oct. 2 X 3^ X \ in. Not 

 unlike 115. 



