CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 1-7 



pressed and furrowed) hollow, blood or cherry red, orangt or yellow 

 nt base, often undulate-uneven, naked. SPORES broadly elliptical, 

 7-9x5-6 micr. BASIDIA 10-50x6-7 micr. ODOR and TASTE 

 none 



Gregarious. <>n the ground, in low meadows or moist woods, 

 thickets, clearings, etc., of conifer or hardwood regions. Marquette, 

 Boughton, Detroit. Throughout the State July-October, infre- 

 quent; more frequenl in the northern pari of the State. 



Among ilif largest <>f the bright-colored species of this ;_r i • • 1 1 j ► . 

 approaching //. puniceus in size in spite of the notes of some au« 

 thorsthat it is smaller. It is variable in size, has a firm appearance, 

 I'm is rather brittle This is one ot our most beautiful mushrooms 

 when well developed, h is easily confused with //. puniceus, from 

 which it is to be separated by its spores, the yellow base of the 

 Btem, the more distinctly adnate gills and tin- entirely glabrous 

 Sinn. European authors disagree as to the spore sizes of //. i 

 '■in< us and //. puniceus, bu1 two species which agree in the other 

 characters with the published descriptions and figures, and the 

 spores of which are consistently of the two types given under these 

 two species, are round in Michigan. They vary somewhat in size 

 in each case, but the narrower and longer spore of //. puniceus is 

 well-marked. 



177. Hygrophorus puniceus Fr. (Edibli 



Syst. Myc, 1821. 



Illustrations: Peck, N. V. State Mus. Mem. I. PI. 52, Pig. 1-5, 

 1900. 

 Michael, Fuhrer P. PilzfreUnde, Vol. I. No. 34. 

 Cooke, 111.. PI. 922. 



Murrill, Mycologia, Vol. 2, PI. 27, Pig. 5. 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PL 8, Pig. 2. 



PILEUS 3-7 cm. broad, campanulate, obtuse, expanded at length 

 and then wavy or lobed, bright red or scarlet, viscid, fading, gla- 

 brous. FLESH fragile, white, yellow under the thin separable pel- 

 licle. GILLS narrowly adncxed, thick, distant, yellow to scarlet, 

 intervenose, trama of parallel hyphae. STEM 5 S cm. Long, 5-12 

 nun. thick, ventricose, unequal or tapering, hollow, yellow, or scarlet 

 and yellow, white at the base, dry, fibriUosestriate. SPORES 

 cylindrical-elliptical, smooth. 9-12s I 5 micr. BASIDIA 10 I 

 micr. ODOR none, TASTE mild. 



