362 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Hygrophorus agathosmus, Tries, Monogr., ii. p. 9 ; Cke., 

 Hdb'k., p., 293 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 913. 



In pine woods, &o. 



Smell, especially when old, pleasant, resembling aniseed. 

 In luxurious specimens the pileus is much larger than indi- 

 cated above, and flexuous, the stem is also sometimes curved 

 or flexuous. Larger and firmer than i. |)MsteZaiM«. (Fries.) 



Hygrophorus (Lima.) mesotephrus. B. & Br. 



Pileus 1-1|^ in. across, flesh rather thick at the disc, thin 

 elsewhere, somewhat heriiispherical, white with a brown 

 disc, viscid, striate ; gills decurrent, pure vs^hite, rather 

 distant; stem l|-2 in. long, slender, flexuous, attenuated 

 towards the base, viscid, whitish, granular at the apex; 

 spores elliptical, apiculate, 9-10 x 5 /x. 



Hygrophorus mesotephrus, B. and Br., Ann. Nat. Hist,, xiii. 

 t. 15, f. 2 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 293 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 914. 



In woods. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, convex, subhemispherical, white 

 ■with the disc brown, viscid, striate, the extreme margin often 

 remaining quite even, flesh white, hygrophanous. Stem 

 about 2 in. high, 2 lines thick, flexuous, attenuated at the 

 base, white, viscid, floccoso-granulated at the apex, stufied 

 with a fibrillose pith. Gills pure white, moderately broad, 

 rather distant, ventricose, shortly decurrent. A very deli- 

 cate species, allied to S. fusco-albus, but with a very different 

 habit. In age the lower part of the stem is slightly stained, 

 but by no means squamose. (B. and Br.) 



Cooke's figures, quoted above, differ much from Berkeley's 

 description and figures. In Cooke's " Illustrations " the 

 pileus is pale yellowish buff, disc darker, plane, umbonate, 

 and depressed round the umbo ; altogether suggesting a 

 slender, pale form of H. pratensis. 



Hygrophorus (Lima^ livido-albus. Fr. 

 Pileus l|-2^ in. across, fl^esh everywhere thin ; expanded, 

 obtuse, more or less irregularly waved, even, glabrous, 

 viscid, livid, all one tint, margin naked; gills decurrent, 

 distant, l-l^- line broad, distinct, clear white ; stem 2-8 in. 

 long, about 2 lines thick, nearly equal, often more or less 

 flexuous, stuffed, whitish, glabrous; spores elliptical with 

 an oblique apiculus, 10 X 6 ft. 



