CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 



the pileus is merely incurved &i first, 1 1 < • i inrolled ae it is said to !>•• 

 in //. glutinifer Fr. The color of the pileus of the typical American 

 planl is a brighter red than thai in Europe. This, however, is nol 

 unusual, ;is the reverse is true in Imanita muscaria. The pileus 

 usually becomes pallid yellowish after exposure to sun and wind, or 

 after beihg frozen. In the Adirondack Mountains I collected ;i color 

 variety growing with the species, which differed from it ;it every 

 stage of its developmenl by its cadmium-yellow pileus. Hygroph 

 orus coloratus Pk. is Baid to differ from //. speciosus by having .1 

 stuffed i>r hollow stem ;iuil a partial, floccose, white veil. As tin- 

 latter is sometimes noticeable in the Michigan plants, and because 

 of the sof 1 structure of the interior of the stem in our plants, I doubl 

 whether //. coloratus is more than a variety of the species. 



161. Hygrophorus hypothejus Fr. (Edibli 



Syst. Myc, L821. 



[llustrations : Cooke, 111.. Plate 891. 

 Patouillard, Tab. Analyt., No. 510. 

 Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 337. 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. 5, Fig. .~>. 



"PILEUS •">-•"> cm. broad, convex-expanded, ;it length depressed 



iii center, obtuse, glutinous, olive-brown, virgate with radial fibrils, 

 even, becoming \><\\<\ or citron-golden-yellow, tawny after tin dis- 

 appearance of the olive-brown superficial gluten. FLESH pale 

 yellowish with a yellow periphery, thin. <!II.I.S deem rent, dis 

 taut, yellow to orange-yellow, thickish. STEM 5 7 cm. lorn:. ,; s 

 mm. thick, equal, stuffed to hollow, yellow to pale yellowish, glab- 

 rous, glutinous, evanescently annulate from the partial floccost veil. 

 SPORES cylindrical-elliptical, smooth, 7 '.» \ I .". micr. ODOR and 

 TASTE mild." 

 This species lias not yet come to my notice within the state, it is 



said to lie more eoiniiion farther south, although its known north- 

 ern limit should include Michigan. It is an inhabitanl of pine 



woods, and Ricken says it never appears until after the Aral fl 

 in the autumn, when ii flourishes till the snow falls. Its yellow 

 gills distinguish it from related species. Some consider If. 

 igineus Frost blent ioal. 



