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2 Stem hollow when mature ,5 



2 Stem solid or stuffed, not hollow when mature .4 



3 Lamellae white ' eburneus 



3 Lamellae yellow or yellowish hypothejus 



4 Lamellae becoming brownish with age or in drying 5 



4 Lamellae persistently white or whitish 6 



5 Pileus slightly virgate with innate nhrils virgatulus 



5 Pileus not fibrillose laurae 



6 Stem scabrous punctate at tlie top rubropunctus 



6 Stem glabrous at the top tlavodiscus 



7 Pileus purple or with purple squamules in the center 8 



7 Pileus some other color g 



8 Pileus uniformly colored capreolarius 



8 Pileus witii purple squamules in the center purpurascens 



9 Stem scabrous punctate at the top pudorinus 



9 Stem glabrous, naked at the top 10 



10 Pileus bright red. fading to yellow on the margin speciosus 



10 Pileus pale violaceous subviolaceus 



1 1 Stem naked at the top 12 



1 1 Stem not naked at the top 13 



12 Stem solid fuligineus 



12 Stem stuffed lividoalbus 



13 Stem squamulose at the top limacinus 



13 Stem white floccose at the top fuscoalbus 



Hygrophorus chrysodon (Batsch) Fr. 

 GOLDEN TOOTH HYGROPHORUS 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, viscid when moist, shinint; when 

 dry, white with yellow particles or flocci on the marj^in and some- 

 times in the center also, flesh white ; lamellae distant, decurrent, 

 white, sometimes yellowish on the edge ; stem equal or nearly so. 

 stuffed, white with yellow floccose points at the top ; spores elliptic. 

 .0003-.00035 of an inch long, .00016-.0002 broad. 



Pileus 1.5-3 inches broad; stem 1.5-2.5 inches long, 3-5 lines 

 thick. 



Woods and open places. Albany, Columbia and Ulster counties. 

 Not common. September and October. 



A beautiful mushroom easily known by the yellow ornamentation 

 of the margin of the pileus. the upper part of the stem and some- 

 times the edge of the lamellae. 



Hygrophorus eburneus (Bull.) Fr. 



IVORY HYGROPHORUS 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, viscid when moist, slightly pubes- 

 cent on the margin when young, white, flesh white ; lamellae distant, 



