342 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



slightly attached to the stipes, broadest in the centre, bright 

 yellow, frequently shaded with green. Stipes hollow, 

 splitting, very viscid, 2-3 in. high, about 2 lines thick, 

 sometimes compressed, mostly crooked at the base, green 

 above, yellow below. The colour of the whole plant varies 

 greatly in intensity. It bears the^ nearest affinity to Ag. 

 coniciis ( = Hygropliorus conicus), from which indeed it is diffi- 

 cult to separate it by a written character. The strongest 

 difference resides in the green colour, which is fortunately 

 very constant. It may be added, that the lamellae ar& 

 crowded in Ag. conicus, and not adnate with the stipes, that 

 the pileus, when young, forms a much higher cone, and 

 that the margin is very irregular, being frequently even 

 lobed. (Grev.) 



Hygrophorus (Hygro.) spadiceus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, flesh thin, campanulate then ex- 

 panded, obtuse, very glutinous, distinctly virgate with black 

 fibrils, olive-bay, black when dry, shining ; gills broad and 

 rounded behind, rather thick, broad, lemon-yellow, distant ; 

 stem about 3 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, dry, striato-virgate 

 with brownish fibrils, fundamental colour yellowish, equal, 

 straight, hollow ; spores elliptical, 6-7 X 4 /*. 



Hygrophorus spadiceus, Fries, Epicr., p. 332 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 304; Cke., Ulustr., pi. 1161. 



In mossy meadows, &o. 



Yery similar to H. conicus, but the substance is firmer, 

 never presenting a scorched, blackish appearance while 

 growing or when bruised; pileus quite black when dry;, 

 distinctly virgate, more glutinous when moist and not 

 striate ; gills thicker, more distant, and not narrowed behind. 



Hygrophorus (Hygro.) unguinosus. Fr. 

 Pileus about 2 in. across, flesh thin, campanulate then, 

 convex, obtuse, covered with a tenacious smoky-brown, 

 dripping gluten, even, at length cracking ; gills adnate but 

 very ventricose, distant, thick, broad, connected by veins,, 

 whitish becoming rather glaucous, soft ; stem about 2 in. 

 long, 3 lines thick, usually attenuated at base and apex, 

 unequal, more or less compressed, glutinous, coloured like 

 the pileus, hollow; spores 10 x 7-8 ^u,. 



