Melanosporae 



The glutinous coatings to pileus and stem do not appear on the Ameri- Gomphidius. 

 can form of G. rhodoxanthus in the localities I have found it in during 

 fifteen years. 



G. glutino'silS (Schaeff.) Fr. ghttin, glue. PileilS 2-5 in. broad, 

 purple-brown, often mottled with black spots, fleshy, convex, obtuse, 

 at length plane, even depressed, even, smooth, very glutinous. Flesh 

 thick, about 3^ in., soft, white. Stem 2-3 in. and more long, about 

 % in. thick, solid, whitish, thickened and externally and internally 

 yellow at the base, viscid with the veil, fibrillose or varying with black 

 scales. Cortina often woven in the form of a ring, but soon fugacious. 

 Gills deeply decurrent, distant, distinct, branched, quite entire, muci- 

 laginous, 34 lines broad, at first whitish, then cinereous, clouded with 

 the spores. 



Trama none, wherefore the gills easily separate from the pileus. 

 Taste watery, moldy. Odor not marked. Stevenson. 



Spores 2O/A Cooke; i8-23x6-8/x K.; 16-17x6^ W.G.S.; i8-2Oxo> 

 Mas see. 



Distinguished by the bright yellow base of stem. 



Pine woods. July to November. Nova Scotia. Somers. 



Edible. Leuba. Chiefly used for catsup. Cooke. 



Var. rdseus. Pileus rose-color. Stem white, attenuated and rosy 

 flesh-color internally at the base. Very distinguished, always smaller. 



Spores 20-22x6)". K. 



Nova Scotia. Massachusetts. Frost. 



I have not seen this species or its variety. Eminent authorities vouch 

 for its edibility. 



G. Oregonen'sis Pk. PileilS at first convex, becoming nearly plane 

 or somewhat centrally depressed, viscid, brown or dark-brown, becom- 

 ing black in drying, taste sweet and pleasant. LamellaB numerous, 

 rather lose, adnate or slightly decurrent, blackish in the dried plant. 

 Stem swort, solid, equal or slightly tapering upward, colored like the 

 pileus. Spores oblong, io-i2.5/u, long, 4-5^ broad. 



Pileus 5-io cm. broad. Stem 2.5-5 cm. long, 4-10 mm. thick. 



Fir woods. Oregon* September to December. Lane. 



Dr. Lane writes that this species is edible and grows so abundantly 

 in fir woods that it . might be gathered by wagon loads and might be 



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