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Var. flavipes. Pileus red or reddish. Stem yellow. 



Var. flaviceps. Pileus yellow. Stem reddish or red. 



Var. rosea. Has the pileus expanded and margin wavy scalloped. 



Found from July to September. 



Hygrophorus coccineas. Fr. 

 The Scarlet Hygrophorus Edible. 



Coccineus, pertaining to scarlet. The pileus is thin, convex, obtuse, viscid, 

 scarlet, growing pale, smooth, fragile. 



The gills are attached to the stem, with a decurrent tooth, connected by veins, 

 variously shaded. 



The stem is hollow and compressed, rather even, not slippery, scarlet near 

 the cap, yellow at the base. 



This plant when young is of a bright scarlet, but it soon shades into a light- 

 yellow with advancing age. It is quite fragile and varies very greatly in size 

 in different localities. Found in woods and pastures from July to October. 



Hygrophorus conicus. Fr. 

 The Conical Hygrophorus. Edible. 



The pileus is one to two inches broad, acutely 

 conical, submembranaceous, smooth, somewhat 

 lobed, at length expanded, and rimose ; turning 

 black, as does the whole plant when broken 

 or bruised; orange, yellow, scarlet, brown, 

 dusky. 



The gills are free or adnexed, thick, attenu- 

 ated, ventricose, yellowish with frequently a 

 cinereous tinge, wavy, rather, crowded. 



The stem is three to four inches long, hollow, 

 cylindrical, fibrillose, striated, colored like the 

 pileus, turning black when handled. 



This plant is quite fragile. It can be iden- 

 tified by its turning black when bruised. It 

 sometimes appears early in the spring and 

 continues till late in the fall. It is not abund- 

 ant but is only occasionally found on the ground 

 in woods and open places. 



Figure 166. Hygrophorus conicus. 



