358 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Distinguished from all other golden-yellow species by the 

 glutinous pileus and stem. In Cooke's figure the gills are 

 rather deeply decurrent and deep yellow. 



Hygrophorus (Lima.) discoideus. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin except at the disc, at first 

 campanulato-convex, then plane and somewhat obtuse, at 

 length with the disc depressed, even, glabrous, very 

 glutinous, yellowish-red then becoming paler, disc always 

 darker and somewhat ferruginous ; gills at first adnate and 

 somewhat crowded, then decurrent and distant, tliin, soft, 

 yellowish- white ; stem stuifed, 1^-2 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, 

 equal or attenuated upwards, very soft, texture fibrous, 

 flocculose, viscid, pallid white, apex spotted with white; 

 spores subglobose, 6-6 x 4-5 or 6-8 X 4 /i. 



Hygrophorus discoideus. Pries, Epicr., p. 323 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 291 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 912. 



Among grass in pine woods, &c. 



Gregarious. Fries says that in the late autumn he has 

 met with a form having a clay-coloured pileus with a 

 ferruginous disc, and an elongated stem becoming hollow. 

 Sometimes solitary. 



Hygrophorus (Lima.) aromaticus. Sow. 



Pileus 2^3 in. across, convex then expanded and almost 

 plane, very fragile, cinnamon-colour, smooth, glutinous ; the 

 gluten in drying sometimes contracts and forms raised, 

 anastomosing ribs; disc fleshy, margin thin; gills slightly 

 decurrent, about 1^- line broad, white with a pink tinge ; 

 stem 1^-2 in. long, 2-4 lines thick, almost equal, coloured 

 like the pileus, stuficd then hollow. Smell spicy, taste 

 acrid. 



Hygrophorus aromaiiais. Berk., Outl., p. 198; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 291. 



Agarieus aromaticus, Sowerby, t. 144. 



Among grass. 



There is a certain amount of uncertainty about the 

 fungus described above, and called Agarieus aromaticus by 

 Sowerby. It is considered by Berkeley to be a species of 

 Hygrophorus, hence its appearance here ; the characters, 

 judging from Sowerby's figure and description, given below. 



