CLASSIFICATION OP AGARICS 



A beautiful Qygrophorus when fresh and moist, bul ven variable 

 in the degree of color and viscidity. The deep color and the vis 

 cidity of the pileus disappear quickly on exposure to the wind, caus- 

 ing ii to appear like quite a different plant Hie gelatinous cuticle 

 can, however, be demonstrated in all conditions by means of the 

 microscope. [Examples of our specimens were seen bi Simon 



Davis, wIid collected the type specimens which were oai I l»\ 



Peck. Hygrophorus submoluceous Pk. is verj close to it, according 

 to the description, differing only in its solid stem; Peck has, ho* 

 ever, referred ii i<> the subgenus Limacium. I suspecl that //. 

 <■<" i a!' a > a - B. & < '. is the same plant. 



si BGENl S HYGROCYBE. Veil none. Trama of gills of parallel 

 hyphae. Entire fungus thin, watery-succulent, fragile. Pileus vis 

 ciil when moist, shining when dry, rarely floccose-scaly. Stem hol- 

 low, aot scabrous-punctate at apex. 



.Most specimens of iliis subgenus arc brightly colored, air soft, ami 

 grow in moist or wet plates. As no data arc at hand concerning 

 the gill-trama of several species, these have been included tem 

 porarily under the subgenus Hygrocybe. 



175. Hygrophorus miniatus Fr. (Edible) 



Syst. Myc, L821. 



Illustrations: Hard. Mushrooms, Fig. 171, p. 215. 

 Marshall, Mushroom Book, PI. X. p. 60, 1903. 

 Peck, X. Y. stale .Mas. Rep. is. PL 28, Pig. I L0, 1894. 

 White. Conn. State Xat. Hist. Surv.. Cull. L5, PL L8, 1910. 



Cooke. III.. PL !>L'I i.\ i. 



Ricken, Blatterpilze, PL 8, Pig. !». 



I'l LEI rs L-3 cm. broad, convex snhexpamlod, at length umb lu •■ 

 never viscid, vermillion, reddish-yellow or yellow, fading, minutely 

 tomentose, at length minutely scaly, sometimes glabrous, c\cn. 

 fragile. PLESB thin, yellowish to pale. GILLS adnate to Btibde 

 current, subdistant, orange-red or yellow, at length paler, thickish, 

 traraa of parallel hyphae. STEM 2-7 cm. Ion--. 3-5 mm. thick, equal, 

 almost cylindrical, orange-red or yellow, smiled. ;it last hollow, 

 dry, glabrous. SPORES variabh . broadly elliptical, 7-9.5 \ 5-6 micr. 

 ODOB .'ind TASTE mild. 



Var. CantherMlus Schw. (Hygrophorus Cantherellus 8chw.) 

 Stem longer and more slender, pileus narrower, -ills a little n 

 deeiirrent, spores the same. 



