178 THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



155. Hygrophorus chrysodon Fr. (Edible) 



Sy'st. Myc, 1821. 



Illustrations: Atkinson, Mushrooms, Fig. 112, p. 110, 1900. 

 Cooke, 111., PI. 885. 

 Eicken, Bliitterpilze, PL G, Fig. 4. 



''PILEUS 3-7 cm. broad, convex then expanded, viscid (moist), 

 shining (dry), white, concolorous except for the numerous golden 

 granules on the margin, or sometimes over entire surface, margin 

 involute at first. FLESH white, rather thick. GILLS decurrent, 

 distant, white or yellow-powdered on the edge, interspaces venose. 

 STEM 4-7 cm. long, 6-10 mm. thick, soft, equal, stuffed, white, apex 

 decorated by yellowish granules, sometimes in the form of an im- 

 perfect ring. SPOKES oval-elliptical, smooth, 7-10x4-6 micr., white. 



"Gregarious. In late summer or autumn. On the ground in open 

 woods." 



Not yet reported from Michigan. 



156. Hygrophorus eburneus Fr. (Edible) 



Syst. Myc, 1821. 



Illustrations: Atkinson, Mushrooms, PL 34, Fig. 113, p. Ill, 

 1900. 

 Murrill, Mycologia, Vol. 6, PL 131. 

 Hard, Mushrooms, Fig. 164, p. 207, 1908. 

 Marshall, Mushroom Book, PI. 30, p. 84, 1905. 

 Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 54, PL 77, Figs. 13-14, 1902. 



(As H. laurae var. unicolor.) 

 Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 94, PL 88, Figs. 8-11, 1905. (As 



H. laurae var. decipiens.) 

 Cooke, 111., PL 886. 

 Eicken, Bliitterpilze, PL 6, Fig. 5. 



PILEUS 2-7 cm. broad, convex-expanded, pure white when fresh, 

 glutinous, shining, even, glabrous, margin at first involute and 

 floccose-pubescent. FLESH white, rather thick and firm. GILLS 

 adnate to decurrent, subdistant, moderately broad behind, narrowed 

 in front, subvenose, white, often dingy yellowish in age, trama of 

 divergent hyphae. STEM 6-15 cm. long, 3-8 mm. thick, elongated, 

 subeqnal, tapering or fusiform, often flexuous, glutinous, shining- 

 spotted when dry, persistently stuffed or becoming hollow, glab- 



