Ochrosporee Porphyrosporae 



spots or scales. This bears the name, variety subsqiiamosus. In all Cortinarius. 

 other respects it is like the species. 



The gills are closely placed side by side. They are at first of a pale 

 hue, but assume a darker and more definite tawny color with age. They 

 are usually minutely uneven or eroded on the edge and transversely stri- 

 ate on the sides. They are slightly narrowed toward the stem. 



The stem is generally a little longer than the width of the cap. It 

 is commonly smooth, but sometimes sprinkled near the top with minute 

 yellowish particles and adorned below with a few fibrils. It is hollow 

 and has a distinct viscid bulbous base, the viscidity of which is a pecu- 

 liar feature. This bulb in the very young plant is even broader than 

 the young cap, that at this stage of development appears to rest upon 

 it. The color of the bulb is usually like that of the cap, but the stem 

 is commonly paler than either. 



The cap is 2 to 4 inches broad, the stem 3 to 5 inches long, 3 to 8 

 lines thick. The plants are gregarious in woods and bushy places, and 

 may be found from June to September. It sometimes grows in con- 

 siderable abundance, and as an edible species it is not to be despised. 

 Peck, 52d Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Agaricus hsemorrhoidarius Schulz. Bleeding Mushroom. The 

 bleeding mushroom is easily recognized, when fresh, by the red color 

 assumed by wounds of the flesh either of the cap or stem. This char- 

 acter is also found in the seashore mushroom. A. maritimus , a species 

 that has a solid stem and has not yet been found growing far from the 

 sea. The cap is generally some shade of brown, but sometimes when 

 young it is white. It is adorned with darker fibrils or scales, though 

 these sometimes become obscure or disappear with age. When young 

 it is hemispheric or very convex, but it soon becomes broadly convex or 

 nearly flat, with the center either slightly depressed or somewhat promi- 

 nent. The flesh is generally whitish or grayish white when first ex- 

 posed to the air. It assumes the red color rather slowly and after a 

 time loses it again. 



The gills are pink or rarely whitish when young, but become brown or 

 blackish brown with age. The stem is long or short, cylindric or taper- 

 ing upward, sometimes slightly thickened or bulbous at the base, some- 

 times not. It is hollow, but the cavity small, at first fibrillose and 

 more or less adorned with floccose scales toward the base, but these 

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