200 OUTLINES 01" BRITISH VUNGOLOGY. 



smooth, solid; gills broad, thick, arched, dccurrent, very few, 

 and distant. 



In exposed pastures. Rare. Walkcringham, Notts, Rev. 

 T. K. Miller. Known at once by its persistent delightful 

 odour, like that of Russian leather or Potentilla atro-sangui- 

 nea. Pileus scarcely exceeding half an inch in diameter. 



14. H. ovinus, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, thin, conieo-convex, 

 then expanded, gibbous, viscid, squamulose, brown ; stem 

 somewhat stuffed, smooth, shining, thickened at either end ; 

 gills arcuato-decurrent, connected by veins, white, then dingy; 

 edge i\nn.— Bull. t. 580 ; Huss. ii. t. 50. 



Tn pastures. Not common. Northamptonshire. Coed 

 Coch. Ay. compressus, Sow., probably repi-esents this species. 

 Pileus about 21 inches across. 



*** Whole fungus of a watery, succulent substance ; veil none. 



15. H. distans, B.; pileus somewhat fleshy, plane or de- 

 pressed, viscid, white with a silky lustre, here and there stained 

 with brown; stem white above, cinereous below, and atte- 

 nuated, not spotted ; gills few, very distant, subventricose, de- 

 current, pure white at flrst, then tinged with cinereous ; inter- 

 stices obscurely rugose. (Plate 13, fig. 1.) 



In woods. Rare. King's Cliffe. June 30, 1859. /Vbout 

 2 inches across. Often umbilicate. 



16. H. Colemannianus, i?/o.r. ; pileus subcarnose, umbonate, 

 umber, turning pale except in the centre, even, striate when 

 moist and slightly viscid ; stem nearly equal, somewhat silky, 

 whitish ; gills rather broad, of the same colour as the pileus, 

 distant, deeply dccurrent; interstices venoso-rugose. 



In grassy pasture. Twycross, Warwickshire, Rev. A. Bloxam. 

 Pileus 1-2 inches across, reddish -umber. 



17. H. Isetus, Fr. ; pileus thin, convcxo-plane, nearly even, 



