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Sub-genus i.— HYGROCYBE 
(Gr. hugros, moist; kube, head—from the moist pileus) 
Hygrophorus coccineus ( coccineus —from its scarlet colour), 
“ Scarlet-hood.” Plate IX. 4. 
P. i-2§ in., viscid when moist; bright scarlet, becoming 
pale; often irregular. G. broadly adnate, with a decurrent 
tooth ; distant, connected by veins, wrinkled; purplish at 
the base, pale yellow towards the middle, edge glaucous at 
maturity. 5 . 1J-2 in. thick, not shining, more or less 
hollow; tough, but splitting easily; crimson above, always 
pale yellow at the base. Very common amongst grass and 
moss in fields and open places. 
H. miniatus {minium, vermillion) is another blood-red 
species, appearing in fields in July. P. 1 in., squamulose, 
umbilicate and bleached at maturity, flesh scarlet, base of 
stem never yellow. 
H. puniceus ( puniceus , blood-red) is one of the largest 
representatives of the genus. P. 2-4 in. The larger size, 
adnexed gills, and striated stem, with white base, easily 
separate it from H. coccineus. 
H. ceraceus (cera, wax) differs from all other members of 
the sub-genus in the unchangeable wax-yellow hue of every 
part P. 1 in., fragile. 
H. conicus (from the conical pileus). 
P. 1-2 in., broad and high, margin lobed, viscid when 
moist; yellow, orange, scarlet, etc. G. narrowed behind 
and almost free, yellowish, rather crowded. S. 3-4 in., 
stout, variously coloured, often splitting. Remarkable in 
usually turning black with age and when bruised. Very 
common in meadows in late sum. and ant. 
H. chlorophanus (Gr. chloros, greenish-yellow; phcevo , to 
appear) does not become black when bruised, and the 
pileus is obtuse, never conical. It differs from H. ceraceus in 
