Leucosporee 



Found at Angora, near Philadelphia, August I, 1897. Densely ces- Hygrophoms. 

 pitose. 



Raw it tastes like dead leaves. Tender and of fine flavor when cooked. 



H. minia'tllS Fr. minium, red lead. (Plate XXXVII, fig. 4, p. 

 146.) PileilS thin, fragile, at first convex, becoming nearly plane, gla- 

 brous or minutely squamulose, often umbilicate, generally red. Gills 

 distant, adnate, yellow, often tinged with red. Stem slender, glabrous, 

 colored like the pileus. Spores elliptical, white, 8/* long. 



Cap 3^-2 in. broad. Stem 1-2 in. long, 1-2 lines thick. Peck, 48th 

 Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Var. lutes' cens. Pileus yellow or reddish-yellow. Stem and gills yel- 

 low. Plant often cespitose. Peck, 4ist Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Spores iox6|". Cooke ; elliptical, white. 



Grows where it pleases and abundantly throughout the land. In wet 

 weather I have found it in July and late in autumn. 



Professor Peck says : It is scarcely surpassed by any mushroom in 

 tenderness of substance and agreeableness of flavor. 



The gunner for partridges will not shoot rabbits ; the knowing toad- 

 stool seeker will pass all others where H. miniatus abounds. 



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Gills adnexed, etc. 



H. pimi'ceus Fr. blood-red. Pileus 2-4 in. broad, glittering blood- 

 scarlet, in dry weather and when old becoming pale especially at the 

 disk, slightly -fleshy for its breadth, at first bell-shaped, obtuse, commonly 

 repand or lobed, very irregular, even, smooth, viscid. Flesh of the same 

 color, fragile. Stem 3 in. long, 3->-i in. thick, solid when young, at 

 length hollow, very stout (not compressed), ventricose (attenuated at 

 both ends), striate, and for the most part squamulose at the apex, when 

 dry light yellowish or of the same color as the pileus, always white and 

 often incurved at the base. Gills ascending, ventricose, 2-4 lines 

 broad, thick, distant, white-light yellow or yellow and often reddish at 

 the base. Fries. 



The largest of the group and very handsome. It certainly differs 

 from H. coccineus, for which it is commonly mistaken, in stature, in 

 the adnexed gills, and in the white base of the striate stem. The attach- 

 ment of the gills varies, but from the form of the pileus they ascend to 

 the base of the cone and appear free. 



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