200
563.
AGAEICINI.
Hygrophorus russo-coriaceus. B.fyMill.
leather Hygrophorus."
"Kussian-
Sweet scented. Pileus very white, slightly viscid, convex,
fleshy; stem slender, smooth, solid ; gills broad, thick, arched,
decurrent, very few, and distant.—Berk. 0MtZ.jp. 200.
Ann.N.Ii.
no. 332.
In exposed pastures. Rare.
Pileus about J in. broad, convex, fleshy, slightly viscid, ivory white. Stem
f-1 in. high, not a line thick, incrassated upwards, smooth, solid, pure white;
gills thick, broad arehed, decurrent, very few and distant, with a few shorter
ones intermixed. The whole plant exhales a strong musky smell like that of
Russian leather.—M. J. B.
564.
Hygrophorus distans. Berk.
Hygrophorus."
" Distant-gilled
Pileus somewhat fleshy, plane or depressed, viscid, white, with
a silky lustre, here and there stained with brown; stem white
above, cinereous below, and attenuated, not spotted; gills few,
very distant, subventricose, decurrent, pure white at first, then
tinged with cinereous, interstices obscurely rugose.—Berk. Outl.
p. 200, t. 1 3 , / . 1. Price./. 5. H. clivalis, Fr. Men. Hym. ii. p.
134.
In woods. Rare.
About 2 in. across, often umbilicate, remarkable for the few and distant
gills.
565.
Hygrophorus o v i n u s .
Fr.
" Sheep Hygrophorus."
Pileus fleshy, thin, conico-convex, then expanded, gibbous,
viscid, then squarnulose, brown; stem slightly stuffed, smooth,
somewhat shining, thickened at either end;, gills arcuato-decurrent, connected by veins, white, then clingy, edge thin.—Fr. Epicr.
p. 328. Bull. t. 580. Suss. ii. t. 50. Ann. N.H. no. 262. A. compressus. Sow. t. 66. ?
In pastures.
Stem about 2 in. long, 3 lin. thick, sub-equal, or slightly thickened at
either end, curved or twisted, compressed, smooth, pallid, or blackish-brown ;
pileus 2 in. broad, at length revolute, undulate. Gills 3 lin. broad.
566.
Hygrophorus Colemannianus.
Hygrophorus."
Blox.
" Coleman's
Pileus sub-carnose, umbonate, umber, turning pale except in
the centre, even, striate when moist, and slightly viscid. Stem
nearly equal, somewhat silky, whitish ; gills rather broad, of the