Part 37

=eburneus=, Bull. White. P. 3-5 cm. exp. even, edge soon naked; g. decur. distant, firm; s. 3-7 cm. viscid, rough with points at apex; sp. 5 x 4.

Differs from H. cossus in pure white colour and absence of unpleasant smell.

=cossus=, Sow. Smell strong. P. 3-5 cm. exp. glutinous, shining when dry, white with yellow tinge, edge naked; g. subdecur. distant, firm; s. scurfy-punctate upwards; sp. 7-8 x 4-5.

=penarius=, Sow. P. 4-7 cm. P. umb. then exp. and obtuse, usually dry, compact, pallid tan, opaque; g. decur. distant, thick; s. 3-5 cm. glutinous then dry and rugulose, fusiformly rooting; sp. 7-8 x 3-4.

** Reddish.

=erubescens=, Fr. P. 5-12 cm. gibbous then convexo-plane, white then deep rosy or dingy red; g. soft, white spotted red; s. 4-9 cm. reddish fibrillose, apex red punctate; sp. 8-10 x 4-5.

Usually growing in circles. Pileus and flesh white suffused with red everywhere.

=pudorinus=, Fr. P. 5-9 cm. convex depr. viscid, clear reddish flesh colour; g. distant, thick, shining white; s. 5-9 cm. white, apex constricted and rough with points; sp. 8 x 4.

Differs from H. erubescens in pure white gills, and clearer colour of p.

=rubescens=, Beck. P. convex, shining, flesh-colour or yellowish, disc often somewhat tawny; g. very distant, adnate, scarcely decur., pale flesh-colour; s. clavate from base, yellowish white, narrowed and floccosely-verruculose below gills; sp. 7.5-10 x 4-7; flesh of p. reddish.

Differs from H. pudorinus and H. discoideus in clavate s. and red flesh.

Sometimes entirely white and p. concentrically cracked.

=glutinifer=, Fr. P. 5-9 cm. exp. rufescent, pellicle glutinous, disc rugosely punctate; g. arcuato-decur. white; s. 7-9 cm. stuffed, ventricose below, viscid, colour of p., apex white squamulose; sp. ----.

*** Tawny or yellow.

=arbustivus=, Fr. P. 3-5 cm. exp. viscid, innately virgate, tawny; g. adnate, thick, white; s. solid, 3-4 cm. pallid, apex with loose white mealy granules; sp. 10 x 6.

=discoideus=, Fr. P. 3-5 cm. exp. depr. glutinous, pale gilvous, disc dark and rusty; g. adnato-decur. soft, colour of p. then pallid; s. viscid, flocculose, with white points upwards, 3-5 cm.; sp. 5-8 x 4-5.

=aureus=, Arrh. P. 2-3 cm. exp. glutinous, golden yellow; g. adnato-decur. white; s. 4-5 cm. reddish tawny and glutinous up to imperfect ring; sp. 8 x 4.

=aromaticus=, Sow. P. 5-7 cm. exp. very fragile, cinnamon, glutinous; g. subdecur. white with pink tinge; s. 3-5 cm. equal, colour of p.

Smell spicy, taste like peppermint. A fungus of uncertain affinity.

**** Olivaceous-umber.

=limacinus=, Fr. P. 3-6 cm. convex, obtuse, umber then smoky olive, edge paler; g. adnato-decur. greyish white; s. 5-7 cm. solid, viscid, apex squamulose; 12 x 8.

Differs from H. olivaceo-albus in squamulose apex of stem, and from H. agathosmus in viscid stem.

=olivaceo-albus=, Fr. P. 3-5 cm. exp. even, with olive gluten which disappears leaving surface pale, umbo brown; g. adnato-decur. white; s. 5-7 cm. viscid, with a floccose ring at first, scaly and spotted brown, apex glabrous; sp. 7-8 x 4.

=hypothejus=, Fr. P. 3-6 cm. exp. and more or less depr. thin, olive gluten disappearing and leaving p. yellowish-olive or brownish, virgate; g. decur. yellow; s. 5-9 cm. viscid, paler than p., trace of ring when young; sp. 8-10 x 4-5.

H. olivaceo-albus differs in white gills.

=cerasinus=, B. Smell strong, like cherry-laurel. P. 2-3 cm. obtusely umb. viscid, pale umber then greyish, margin downy; g. very distant, tinged pink; s. 5-7 cm. white, apex squamulose; sp. 8 x 4.

***** Brownish grey or livid.

=fusco-albus=, Lasch. P. 4-5 cm. exp. even, viscid, brownish grey; g. decur. broad, snow-white; s. 5-7 cm. equal, dry, apex white-floccose; sp. 12-14 x 7-8.