196 THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



Illustrations of the variety: 



Hard, Mushrooms, Fig. 165, p. 208, 1908. 



Murrill, Mycologia, Vol. 2,' PI. 27, Fig. 9. 



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



Peck, N. Y. Stale Mus. Pep. 54, PL 76, Fig. 8-20, 1901. 



The var. Ccmtherellus is much more common with us than the 

 type, but it intergrades so much that it is often difficult to decide 

 on the identity. The characters usually given for its separation, 

 viz., the decurrent gills, minutely scaly pileus and slender stem, do 

 not always hold good, so that it can hardly be an autonomous species. 

 Numerous collections show all possible combinations, although the 

 commonest type in Michigan is the plant with narrow pileus and a 

 stem 2-3 mm. thick and 5-7 cm. long. A number of color forms of 

 both have been named as varieties: (a) with red or orange cap 

 and yellow stem; (b) with yellow pileus and red stem; (c) with 

 both stem and pileus pale yellow. Var. sphagnophilus Pk. is more 

 marked, grows in sphagnum bogs, is very fragile and the white 

 base of the stem is imbedded and attached to the moss. The spores 

 of the whole series are rather variable, even in the same collection, 

 but fall within the limits given above. Massee and Cooke give the 

 spore lengths a little large for our plants. The color varies greatly 

 and fades in age. 



Gregarious or subcaespitose. On the ground in moist conifer or 

 frondose woods or on mosses. Throughout the State. June-Octo- 

 ber. Quite common. 



176. Hygrophorus coccineus Fr. (Edible) 



Syst. Myc., 1821. 



Illustrations: Swanton, Fungi, PL 9, Fig. 1-6. 

 Cooke, 111., PL 920. 



Murrill, Mycologia, Vol. 2, PL 27, Fig. 7. 

 Plate XXX of this Report. 



PILEUS 2-7 cm. broad, campanulate or sometimes convex, 

 scarcely expanded, obtuse, subviscid, cherry red or ~blood-red, fad- 

 ing, glabrous, even. FLESH thin, fragile, concolor. GILLS 

 arcuate-adnate, somtimes with decurrent tooth, subdistant to dis- 

 tant, orange-red to yellow, at length glaucous, thickish, intervenose, 

 traina of parallel hyphae. STEM 4-7 cm. long, 3-9 mm. thick, vary- 

 ing much in thickness, subequal or tapering downward, often com- 



