360 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



paler, umbo brownisli; gills slightly decurrent, about 1| line 

 broad, ratber distant, shining white ; stem 2-3 in. long, 

 2-3 lines thick, equal, often slightly curved, viscid, whitish 

 but spotted and stained with brown from the veil, apex 

 smooth, solid ; spnres elliptical, 7-8 X 4 ;«,. 



Hygrojphonm olivaceo-albus. Fries, Epicr., p. 324 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 292 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 890. 



Woods and woodland pastures. 



Stem solid, about 3 in. long, 3 lines thick, equal or 

 attenuated at the base, fundamental colour-white, but 

 spotted with squamules from the adnate sheathing brown 

 veil, viscid ; the veil terminates in a ring near the apex, 

 above which the stem is smooth and shining white. Pileus 

 fleshy, at first cylindrico-globose, then expanded, umbonate, 

 becoming depressed round the umbo, altogether even, 

 glabrous, glutinous, 1-2 in. broad, olive-brown, becoming- 

 pale, especially towards the margin, which is naked from the: 

 first, and somewhat striate when old. Flesh thin, white, 

 gills decurrent, distant, broad, simple, connected by veins at 

 the base, always shining white. (Fries.) 



Hygrophorus (Lima.) hypothejus. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2| in. across, convex then depressed, sometimes 

 almost infundibuliform, even, slightly virgate, greyish- 

 olive, at first covered with olive mucus, paler and yellowish- 

 olive or brownish after the gluten has disappeared; flesh 

 thin, tinged yellowish; gills decurrent, about 1^ line broad, 

 distant, distinct, whitish then with a yellow or yellow-pink 

 tinge; stem 2-4 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, almost or quite 

 equal, viscid, paler thaii the pileus, stufied then hollow, veil 

 evident at first in the form of an imperfect ring, but soon 

 disappearing; spores broadly elliptical, 8-10 X 4^5 ju. 



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

 p. 292 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 891. 



In pine woods, among heather, &c. 



Distinguished by the glutinous pileus and stem and the 

 yellowish-olive colour. Usually appears late in the season. 

 H. olivaceo-albus differs in the persistent shining-white 

 gills. 



