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Specimens when collecting them. Specimens have been received 

 from correspondents that are said to be viscid when fresh and 

 moist, but when received were not distinguishable from our speci- 

 mens of this species. It is therefore probable that in wet weather 

 this plant may be found viscid. 



Hygrophorus mlniatus Fr. 



VERMILION HYGROPHORUS 

 State Mus. Rep't 48. 1896. Bot. ed. p. 182, pi. 28, fig. i-io. 



Pileus thin, fragile, convex becoming nearly plane, glabrous or 

 minutely squamulose, often umbilicate, deep red or sometimes yel- 

 low ; lamellae distant, adnate, yellow, often tinged with red or rarely 

 wholly red; stem slender, glabrous, equal, stuffed or hollow, pol- 

 ished, colored like or a little paler than the pileus ; spores .0003 of 

 an inch long, .0002 broad. 



Pileus .5-2 inches broad ; stem 1-3 inches long, 1-2 lines thick. 



Scattered, gregarious or cespitose. Woods and swamps, among 

 mosses and fallen leaves or on bare ground. Common. June to 

 September. Edible. 



Var. s u b 1 u t e u s Pk. [var. lutescens Pk. State Mus. 

 Rep't 48, Bot. ed. p. 183]. Pileus yellow or reddish yellow; lamellae 

 and stem yellow. 



Var. congelatus Pk. [Hygrophorus congelatus 

 Pk. State Mus. Rep't 23, p. 114]. Pileus small, convex, dingy red, 

 glabrous; lamellae subemarginate, red. 



Var. sphagnophilus Pk. Pileus subconic or broadly con- 

 vex, sometimes centrally depressed, glabrous, red or orange ; stem 

 colored like or a little paler than the pileus, white or yellow at the 

 base. Growing among peat mosses in bogs. More fragile than the 

 typical form. 



The vermilion hygrophorus is a very variable but beautiful 

 species. Unfortunately its colors are apt to fade and its beauty to 

 be lost in drying. 



Hygrophorus ceraceus (Wulf.) Fr. 



WAXY HYGROPHORUS 



Pileus thin, fragile, convex becoming plane, striatulate, viscid, 

 shining, waxy yellow ; lamellae broad, almost triangular, distant, 

 adnate or slightly decurrent, pale yellow ; stem sometiiries unequal 

 and flexuous, hollow, shining, waxy yellow ; spores elliptic, .0003 

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



