Porphyrosporas 



brick-red or tan, fleshy, rather plane, somewhat umbonate, dry, smooth, Hypkoioma. 

 opaque. Flesh yellow. Stem stuffed then hollow, equal, commonly 

 slender, incurved or flexuous, fibrillose, of the same color as the pileus, 

 becoming rust-color. Gills adnate, crowded, thin, green tlien pure 

 olivaceous. 



Cespitose. Odor bitter. On trunks and on the ground. Fries. 



Cap 1-2 in. across. Stem 2-4 in. long, K->s in. thick, stuffed 

 then hollow. 



West Virginia, 1881-1885, Haddonfield, N. J.; Pennsylvania. On 

 stumps, roots and ground in woods, etc. Mcllvaiue. Not reported 

 elsewhere. 



Its habit is the same as H. fascicularis, to which it is closely allied, 

 and to me seems but a form of this very variable species. It is equally 

 good. 



H. Sllblateri'tilim Schaeff. sub and later, a brick. (Plate XCVII, 

 fig- 3> P- 35 2 -) Pileus 23 in. and more broad, tawny-brick-red, but 

 paler round the margin and covered over with a superficial, somewhat 

 silky, whitish cloudiness (arising from the veil), fleshy, convexo-plane, 

 obtuse, discoid, dry, even, becoming smooth. Flesh compact, white, 

 then becoming yellow. Stem 3-4 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, stuffed, 

 stout and firm, commonly manifestly attenuated downward, rarely equal, 

 scaly-fibrillosc , fibrils pallid, rust-colored downward. Cortina superior, 

 at first white, at length becoming black. Gills adnate, more or less 

 crowded according to stature, narrow, at first dingy-yellowish and darker 

 at the base, then sooty, and at length inclining to olivaceous. 



Spores brownish purple. Somewhat cespitose. Stem incurved from 

 position. There are many varieties: B, somewhat solitary, the pileus 

 and stem, which is thickened at the base, of the same color, reddish. 

 C, smaller, pileus light yellowish, the hollow stem equal. Schaeff. 



Var. squamo'suni, Cooke. Pileus convex, bright brick-red, shading 

 to yellow at the margin, spotted with superficial scales. Flesh very 

 thick, yellowish. Gills narrowish, adnate. Stem elongated, stout, pale 

 above, rust-colored below, hollow, veil hanging from the margin when 

 young. 



On trunks. A very beautiful variety, larger and more robust than 

 the typical form. Massec. 



Spores 6x3^ W.G.S.; elliptical, sooty-brown, 8x4^ Masses 



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