22. H. obrusseus, F r .; brittle, bright golden-yeUow; pileüs
fleshy, thin, conico-convex, obtuse, waved, nearly dry, even,
as well as the hollow, somewhat compressed, smooth stem;
gills adnato-ventricose, thick, distant.
In woods. Rare. Mossburnford, A. Jerdon.
23. H. eonicus, F r .; brittle; pileus submembranaceous,
conical, acute, smooth, somewhat lobed, at length expanded,
rimose, black when bruised or decaying; stem hollow, cylindrical,
fihroso-striate; gills attenuated, free, ventricose, then
rather crowded.—Sow. t. 381.
In pastures. Extremely common. Always known by its
turning black. Pileus yellow, scarlet; gills yellow, or shaded
with red.
34. H. psittaoinus, F r .; pileus thin, campanulate, expanded,
umbonate, more or less striate, clothed, as well as the tough,
even, hollow stem, with green, evanescent gluten; gills adnato-
ventricose, thick, distant.—Sow. t. 82. Huss. i. t. 41.
In fields. Extremely common. Pileus lilac, yellow, white,
etc., when the green gluten vanishes. Stem generally green
above.
35. H. calyptrseformis, B. and B r .; pileus thin, acutely
conical, lobed below, minutely innato-fibrillose; stem white,
smooth, slightly striate, hollow; gills rose-coloured, at length
pallid, very narrow, acutely attenuated behind.—A. conious,
7 amoenus, Lasch. in Linn. iii. p. 380.
On the borders of woods and in open pastures. Probably
not uncommon. Pileus pink, becoming pallid. Very distinct
from H. cünicus. I t does not turn black when bruised.
26. H. nnguinosus, F r .; brittle ; pileus thin, campanulato-
convex, obtuse, even, clothed with dingy gluten as well as the
hollow, unequal stem; gills adnato-ventricose, plane, thick,
white, becoming glaucous.
In woods and pastures. Not uncommon. Persistently
dingy.
37. H. murinaceus, F r .; brittle, strong-scented; pileus
thin, campanulate, flattened out, irregular, viscid, soon dry,
rimnloso-squamose; stem rather hollow, unequal, somewhat
compressed, even; gills adnate, separating, hroad, distant,
somewhat undulated, white, then glaucous.
Inpastures. Notoommon,C.JJ.Broome. Smellstrong,nitrous.
This is quite different from A.murinaceus, which is a Tricholoma.
8 . LACTAEIUS, Fr.
Hymenophorum confluent with the stem and vesiculose
trama. Gills milky, edge acute.
* a lls not decidedly changing colour; milh at Jirst white, t
1. L. torminosus, F r . ; pileus fleshy, depressed, somewhat
zoned, pallid as well as the equal, stuffed, at length hollow
stem; margin involute, bearded; gills thin, dirty-white; milk
acrid, white, unchangeable.—Sow. t. 103.
In woods, fields, etc. Common. Pileus 3 inches or more
across, sometimes tinged with reddish-grey, or flesh-coloured.
2. L. cilicioides, F r .; pileus fleshy, soft, depressed, tomentose,
zoneless, turning pallid, margin fibrilloso-lanuginous;
stem stuffed, even, pruinose, silky, spotless, pallid ; gills
crowded, branched, white, becoming yellowish as well as the
milk.
In pine-woods. Edinburgh, Greville. Rare.
3. L. turpis, F r .; pileus compact, plane, olive-umber, zone-
less, margin at first clothed with yellowish down; stem stuffed,
short, viscid, attenuated downwards, olive; gills thin, pallid,
milk-white, acrid.—Kromb. t. 69. /. 1-6.
In fir-woods. Coed Coch. East Bergholt, where Dr. Bad-
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