REPORT ON EDIBLE FUNGI 1 895-99 l \7 



The larch hygrophorus grows under tamarack trees in a gregarious 

 manner and sometimes in great abundance. The cap in the young plant is 

 very broadly conic or convex, but it expands with age till it is nearly or 

 quite flat. It sometimes has a small central prominence or umbo. Under 

 a lens the surface has a slightly silky appearance. The color is some shade 

 of red and may be rusty red, tawny red or grayish red. The extreme mar- 

 gin is sometimes white, and in some specimens a reddish brown incircling 

 line or narrow band is seen near the margin. Occasionally the margin is 

 yellow. The flesh is white, slightly tinged with yellow under the insep- 

 arable cuticle. It is tender and, though slightly disagreeable when raw, is 

 agreeable and well flavored when cooked. The gills are white and not 

 closely placed side by side. They are broadly attached to the stem or 

 slightly decurrent on it. The stem is white, stuffed or hollow and rather 

 short. It is 1 to 2 inches long and 2 to 3 lines thick. The cap rarely 

 exceeds 1 inch in diameter. It has been found near Warrensburg only. It 

 appears in October. 



Hygrophorus chlorophanus Fr. 



Sulfury Hygrophorus 



PLATE SI, fig: 13-20 



Pileus thin and fragile, convex becoming nearly plane, often irregular 

 with the margin split or lobed, glabrous, viscid, striate on the margin, yel- 

 low, sometimes tinged with red in the center ; lamellae rather broad, subdis- 

 tant, thin, ventricose, emarginate, adnexed, pale yellow ; stem equal or 

 nearly so, glabrous, viscid when moist, shining when dry, hollow, yellow ; 

 spores elliptic, .0003 of an inch long, .0002 broad. 



The sulfury hygrophorus has a thin cap, which is easily broken unless 

 handled with care. It is very viscid when moist and adorned with marginal 

 striations. Its color is a beautiful pale yellow, but sometimes there are red- 

 dish tints in the center. The gills are rather broad and moderately wide 

 apart. They are notched at the end next the stem, to which they are 

 slightly attached. In our plant they are pale yellow, but a form of the 

 European plant is said to have white gills. 



The stem is rather long, slender, fragile and viscid when moist. On 

 account of its viscidity, it is not easily plucked from its place of growth 



