No. 40.] 
[June, 1878. 
A QUAETEELY EECOED OF CEYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITEEATUEE. 
NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
{Continued jrom pp. 102.) 
Hygrophorus pulverulentus. B. 4" Br. 
Small. Pileus viscid, pulvinate, white ; margin involute, 
tomentose ; stem nearly equal, stuffed, or attenuated at the base, 
powdered with rosy meal ; gills thick, decurrent, with an obtuse 
margin, whitish. — B. ^ Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1667. 
Amongst pine leaves. 
Pileus one-third inch across. Stem | inch high, 1-2 lines 
thick. 
Hygrophorus nemoreus . Fr. Hym. Fur. p. 413. 
Pileus equally fleshy, convex, then expanded, gibbous, at length 
depressed, nearly smooth, orange ; stem stuffed, firm, squamulose, 
flbrously striate, attenuated at the base ; gills decurrent, thick, 
distant, of the same colour. — B. ^ Br. Ann. Nat Hist., 1878, 
p. 22. 
In woods. 
Hygrophorus cinereus. Fr. Atl. Svam. t. 30. 
Pileus thinner than in H. pratensis, and as well as the gills 
cinereous; stem white. — B. ^ Br.Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1669. 
In mossy places. 
Hygrophorus suhradiatus. Fr. Hym. Bur. p. 416. 
Pileus rather membranaceous, radiato-striate ; disc somewhat 
fleshy, and umbonate, tawny ; stem hollow, equal, smooth, pallid, 
white at the base ; gills plane, adnate, with a long decurrent 
tooth, ventricose, thin, distant, white. — B. ^ Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., 
No. 1670. 
On heathy ground. 
Pileus whitish, livid, or livid-reddish. 
Hygrophorus glauconitens. Fr. Hym. Fhir. p. 421. 
Pileus fibrous, olivaceous, black or sooty, becoming paler ; stem 
equal, shining, gills becoming glaucous. — Batsch. f. 192. B. ^ 
Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1671. 
In woody pastures. 
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