344 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



stem 1 in. and more long, 1-3 lines thick, Tinequal, usually 

 compressed and wavy, sometimes becoming yellowish. Pileus 

 when young viscid when moist, smooth, brown, but soon dry 

 and cracked into squamules, grey, J-1 in. across. Grills at 

 first adnate, with a decurrent tooth, white, then ventricose 

 and glaucous, but broad and thick. (Fries.) 



Var. glauco-nitens, Fries, Epicr., p. 64; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 304. 



Eigid ; pileus fibrillosely virgate ; blackish-olive or sooty, 

 becoming pale ; stem equal, shining, gills becoming glaucous ; 

 spores elliptical, 8 x 6 /x. 



Among grass. 



Subgen. II. CAMAEOPHYLLUS. 

 * Gills deeply and at length obconically decurrent. 

 ** Gills plano-adnate or sinuately arcuate, ventricose. 



Hygrophorus (Camar.) caprinus. Scop. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh thick at the disc, thinning out 

 towards the margin ; conical then expanded and umbonate, 

 becoming depressed and rather wavy, moist, virgate, sooty- 

 brown or blackish; gills deeply decurrent, very broad and 

 very distant, thick, pure white then glaucous; stem 2-3 in. 

 long, |-| in. thick, more or less equal, fibrillose, sooty ; solid, 

 expanding at the apex into the flesh of the pileus ; spores 

 broadly elliptical, smooth, 10 x 7-8 /x. 



Hygrophorus caprinus, Cke., Hdbk., p. 294; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 916. 



Agaricus caprinus, Scopoli, Cam., ii. p. 488. 



In pine woods, &c. 



The largest species of the genus, and very distinct, 

 scarcely comparable with any other species. Pileus some- 

 times blackish or bluish, at first with a nut-shaped umbo. 

 Gills somewhat branched, soft when adult, waxy, the hyme- 

 nium separating from the trama. (Fries.) 



Hygrophorus (Camar.) leporinus. Fr. 

 Pileus about 2 in. across, equally and very fleshy, convex, 

 gibbous, equal, broken up into floccose fibrils, reddish- 



