CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS L81 



This is close to Hit- preceding, and may be a form of ii peculiar 

 to conifer woods. Peck thinks it belongs nearest to //. fuligim 

 in whose company he has found it. According to tiiis author, there 

 are ao scabrous points a1 the apex of the Btem. in my Bpecimemi 

 they were present, m least in the younger stages. The species was 

 first published by Peck who obtained the name from Frost's manu 

 scripl description. The pileus has a thick fleshy disk, its margin 

 is at first inrolled and is densely white-floccose on the side nexl the 



stein. The gills are soinet imes iniei\ enose ; ;it first they are simply 



adnate, bu1 on the expansion of the pileus become decurrent. This 

 change from the young t<» the old gills has caused some discrep- 

 ancies in the descriptions by diflfereul authors of this and the pre 

 ceding species. The layer of glutinous tissue is very thick on the 

 cap, thin on the stem. 



159. Hygrophorus paludosus Pk. 

 Torr. Bot. Club Bull., Vol. 29, L902. 



"PILEUS 2-4 cm. broad, convex', obtuse, whitish, covered with a 

 thick yellowish or brownish gluten. FLESH white. GILLS adnate 

 or slightly decurrent, subdistant, whitish, stained with greenish- 

 yellow when old. STEM .*> 10 em. long. Mi mm. thick, subequal, 

 long mid slender, flexuous, often curved at the base, solid, glutino 

 white with yellow glandular dots at the top, streaked with brownish 



tihers or shreds of the dried gluten when dry. SPORES broadly 



elliptical, 8-10 x 5-7 micr., white. ODOR earthy. TASTE slightly 

 acrid." 



Growing among peal mosses. Greenville. September. Reported 

 by Longyear. 



The yellowish dots at the apex of the stem are said to become 



black on drying, and there are yellowish stains ,n the base of the 

 stem. The plant seems rare, as it has m>( been reported since its 

 discovery. It needs further study to show its relationship. 



160. Hygrophorus speciosus Pk. (Edibli 



N. V. State Mus. Rep. 29, L878. 



Illustrations: Peck. \. v. State Mus. Mem. I. PI. 51, Fig. 21 

 l '.too. and Rep. 29, PI. 2, Fig. l 5, L878 

 Hard. Mushrooms. Fig. L68, p. 211, L908. 

 Fries, [cones, PI. L66 {Hygrophorus aureus Fr 



