Chapter 29
[=melizeus=, Fr. Straw colour. P. exp. depr. even; g. decur. thin, distant; s. soft, narrowed below, apex with white squamules.
=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 3-4.
** _Reddish._
[=purpurascens=, Fr. P. whitish, disc with purplish squamules; g. decur.
white tinged purple; s. white, bristling with purplish squamules, ring inferior.
[=capreolarius=, Kalchbr. Entirely purple rufous. P. soon dry, virgate with darker fibrils, centre squamulosely punctate, flesh reddish; g.
rigid, purplish then changing to cinnamon; s. reticulately striate with darker purple-umber fibrils.
=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 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, s.h.i.+ning white; s. 5-9 cm. white, apex constricted and rough with points; sp. 8 4.
Differs from _H. erubescens_ in pure white gills, and clearer colour of p.
=rubescens=, Beck. P. convex, s.h.i.+ning, 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 4-7; flesh of p.
reddish.
Differs from _H. pudorinus_ and _H. discoideus_ in clavate s. and red flesh.
[=Queletii=, Bres. P. convex-plane, sub.u.mb. white with pinkish flecks at centre, epidermis becoming squamulose, edge at first incurved and white-floccose, viscid; g. adnato-decur. white or yellowish, edge citrin; s. solid, white, scurfy with reddish flecks; sp. 8-9 5.
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. ----.
[=leucophaeus=, Fr. P. exp. pallid gilvous, disc rugosely punctate; g.
adnate then decur. pallid; s. hollow, narrowed below, pallid, apex white floccose; sp. 6-8 4.
[=Secretani=, Henn. (= _Ag. suaveolens_, Var. D. Secr.) Smell strong, like aniseed. P. camp. exp. white, disc with rosy fibrils; g.
adnato-decur. distant, thick, white then tan or yellowish; s. white, glabrous, apex white-floccose; sp. 11-13 5-6.
[=persicinus=, Beck. P. conic then hemispher. edge incurved, peach colour
[=miniaceus=, Beck. P. convex then exp. fleshy, vermilion brick-red, centre innately floccose; g. adnate, very distant, broad, white; s.
orange flesh-colour; flesh white soon reddish, deep rose under cuticle of p.; sp. 6-7.
*** _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 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 4-5.
[=Friesii=, Sacc. (_H. nitidus_, Fr. Mon., not B. and C.). P. convex then plane, obtuse, viscid, yellow; g. deeply decur. white then pallid; s. solid, glabrous, viscid, apex even, white; sp. 8 4-5.
[=nitidus=, Fr. P. exp. viscid, yellow; g. deeply decur. distant, white then pallid; s. solid, glabrous, viscid, apex smooth, white.
=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 4.
[=Bresadolae=, Q. P. campan.-exp. umb. glutinous, clear yellow, umb.
orange tawny; g. distant, thick, attenuato-decur. citrin or more or less white; s. apex white, yellow-flocculose below ring, glutinous; sp.
8-10 6.
[=lucorum=, Kalchb. P. plano-depr. sub.u.mb. viscid, whitish, disc bright citrin, altogether yellowish when old; g. adnato-decur. pallid or citrin, edge white; s. slender, base subbulbous, colour of p.; sp. 7 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 8.
Differs from _H. olivaceo-albus_ in squamulose apex of stem, and from _H. agathosmus_ in viscid stem.
[=vignolius=, Paniz. P. obtuse, very glutinous, olive; g. adnate, greyish-purple then rusty, edge white; s. with dark concentric scales or glutinous and fibrillose.
=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 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 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 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 7-8.
=agathosmus=, Fr. Smell like aniseed. P. 3-5 cm. exp. gibbous, viscid, livid grey, disc with crowded pellucid papillae; g. decur. soft, white; s. 5-7 cm. dry, fibrillosely striate, rough with squamules upwards; sp.
9-10 5.
[=pustulatus=, Fr. P. exp. umb. viscid, livid grey, umbo fuscous, cracked into papillae; g. adnato-decur. white, often glaucous; s. equal, white, rough with black points; sp. 8-10 4-5.
Var. _terebratus_, Fr. P. sub.u.mb. glabrous; g. triquetrous; s. wavy, pure white, apex with black points.
[=tephroleucus=, Fr. P. exp. then depr. round the brown umbo, viscid, grey, adpressedly squamuloso-fibrillose; g. decur. white; s. solid, with black fibrils above.