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appear to be well marked, and if found again, its true 

 position can be settled. 



The agreeable spicy odour suggested its name ; it appears 

 to be A. gliitinosus of Bulliard, though his gills ai'e colourless ; 

 a name applicable to many of the i'ungi (and would do for 

 this were it not previously engaged), as it is sometimes 

 altogether a gluten, or jelly. The pileus has generally a 

 thick glutinous skin of a cinnamon colour; 1he gills are 

 somewhat pinky; they iippear to be dccurreiit in the young 

 state, but when advanced they separate, so as to appear 

 naturally loose and separate from the stipes, which is some- 

 what hollow and pithy. The whole plant when fresh is often 

 so tender, I have not been able to gather it whole ; in bruising 

 it becomes blackish. As the plant dries, the slcin corrugates, 

 and often becomes very prettily reticulated (ma}^ not this be 

 A. reticulatus of Dr. "Withering, ed. iii., p. 289?) The taste is 

 watery, with a peppermint-like coolness in the mouth, and a 

 lasting roughness in the throat. (Sowerby.) 



**** Olivaceous umber. 



Hygrophorus (Lima.) limacinus. Fr. 



Pileus li- 2| in. across, flesh rather thick, firm, white, 

 convex then expanded, obtuse, glabrous, viscid, disc umber 

 then smoke-cohjur, paler towards the margin ; gills adnate, 

 then decurrent, rather distant, thin, greyi sh- white ; stem 

 solid, firm, 2-3 in. long, h in. thick, ventricose, flocculose, 

 fibrillosely striate, apex rough with squamules ; spores 

 elliptical, 12 X 8 /i. 



Hygrophorus limacinus. Fries, Epicr., p. 324; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 292; Cke., lUustr., pi. 897. 



In woods. 



Intermediate between H. agathosvws and H. olivaceo-albus ; 

 differing from the former in the presence of an evident veil, 

 and from the latter in the squamulose apex of the stem. 



Hygrophorus (Lima.) olivaceo-albus. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-2 in. across, fleshy at the disc, very thin else- 

 where, obtusely cylindrical then expanded, umbonate, even, 

 covered with olive gluten that disappears, leaving the pileus 



