CLASSIFICATION OP AGARICS 203 



1-7 cm. Long, 2-5 mm. thick, equal, toughish, even, very viscid when 

 fresh, glabrous, undulate-uneven, subpellucid, green above, usually 

 tinged reddish-orange, flesh-colored or yellowish elsewhere, hollow. 

 SPORES shorl elliptical, smooth 6-7.5x4-5 micr. BA8IDIA 

 Blender, •">•; l'> \ 5-6 micr. 



Gregarious or subcaespitose. <>n the ground in low, moss^ woods 

 or swamps, or in grassy places. Marquette, Houghton, New Rich- 

 mond, Detroit, Ann Arbor. Throughoul the State. July-October. 

 Rather frequent. 



This striking species is one of the few brighl green mushrooms. 

 As in the case of Stropharia aeruginosa and Pholiota aeruginosa, 

 it is always a delight to come across tlds beautiful Little plant. 

 The green color soon fades out when exposed to the wind and 

 light, whereas those individuals which are protected by leaves, etc., 

 retain this color for some time. There is uo cortina in the young 

 stage, and the gluten is derived from the cuticle of the pileus and 

 stem ; otherwise, except for the structure of the gill-trama, it might 

 be confused with the subgenus Limacium. [ts colors are sufficiently 

 characteristic in the early stage to prevent anyone from confusing 

 it with other Hygrophori. 



185. Hygrophorus unquinosus Fr. 



Svst. Mvc, 1821. 



Illustrations: Cooke. 111.. PI. 924. 



Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 350. 



I'll. Ill's 2-5 cm. broad, fragile, hemispherical-campanulate, then 

 subexpanded, obtuse, gray <»• smoky brown, <iiuhr<<iis, pellucid 

 striate, nri/ visoid, radiate-wrinkled in age. FLESH pallid, thin. 

 verv fragile. GILLS broadly adnate, subventricose, pure white, 

 thickish, Bubdistant. sri:>[ 3-8 cm. long, 3-8 mm. thick, Bubequal 

 or variously thickened, hollow, compressed, viscid-slippery, glabrous, 

 lead-gray. SPORES elliptical, 7-8x4-5 micr. BASIDIA 30-35 1 

 5-6 micr. Trama of gills parallel. ODOB none when young. 

 TASTE mild. 



Gregarious or subcaespitose. <>n the ground or moss of low 

 woods or swamps. Detroit. Marquette, Boughton. July-September. 

 Rather rare. 



This species must not lie confused with //. fuligineits Which be 

 longs to the Bubgenus Limacium, and has ;i solid stem and ;i veil. 



