CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 



low, rarely compressed, viscid, glabrous, even. SPORES narrowly 

 elliptical, 6 8 \ I 5 micr., smooth. 



Gregarious. Low, moist places in woods. Throughoul the Btate. 

 .1 une-September. < lommon. 



Known by its anicolorbus viscid Btem, and the adnexed, rather 

 broad ^ills. The stem often dries quickly when exposed i<» the 

 wind. Var. flavescens of the preceding Bpecies Is almost as closely 

 allied to this Bpecies, but its stem is fundamentally distinct. 



179. Hygrophorus marginatus Pk. (Si spe rED 



X. V. State -Mus. Rep. 28, L876. 



Illustrations: Bard, Mushrooms, Fig. IT::, p. 217, L908 

 Plate XXXI of this Report 



PILEUS 1-1 cm. broad, fragile, irregularly convex or campanu- 

 late, gibbous ;ii times. ;it length plane, obtuse or broadly umbonate, 

 hygrophanous, glabrous, varying golden yellow to orange or varie- 

 gated with olivaceous (moist), fading and pale yellowish (dry), 

 striatulate or rimose on margin. FLESH thin, fragile, concolor. 

 GILLS arcuate adnate, becoming emarginate, Bubdistant, ventricose, 

 rather broad, deep yellow or orange, color persisting, intervenose. 

 STEM 2-5 cm. long, 3-8 mm. thick, fragile, hollow, dry, often flexu- 

 ous or irregularly compressed, glabrous, yellow or tinged orange, 

 fading to straw-color. SPORES broadly elliptical, smooth. 7*- \ 

 1-.") micr. (rarely longer). ODOR and TASTE nol marked. 



Gregarious or subcaespitose. On the ground in low. moist pla< 

 in swamps of conifers or in frondose woods. Ann Arbor, Saull Ste. 

 Marie, Marquette, Boughton, Huron Mountains. July-August. In 

 frequent. 



The striking characteristic of this Bpecies is the orange-yellow 

 mils which retain their color even after drying, while the pilens 

 and stem fmle considerably; this is shown well in Hard's figure. 



The edge of the ^ills is sometimes more deeply colored. Tin- whole 



plant is very fragile, and it is difficult to -jet good herbarium •*]»■< i 

 mens. The plants found in the Northern Peninsula were mostly 

 variegated with olive, while those in the frondose woods of the 



south lacked this character, which, however, soon disappears a- the 

 pileUS fades. Xone of IMV s| icci mens Were vi8Cid. It is a well 



marked species. The stem- are sometimes more elongated. 



