Agaricaceae 



Hygrophoms. cies is fetid. It is probable that they are all edible, varying in quality 

 only. Fries well, and is superior in croquettes and patties. 



ANALYSIS OF TRIBES. 



LIMACIUM {Umax, a slug). Page 148. 



Universal veil viscid, with occasionally a floccose partial one, which 

 is annular or marginal. 



* White or becoming yellowish. 

 ** Reddish. 



** Tawny or yellow. 

 **** Olivaceous-umber. 

 ***** Dingy cinereous or livid. 



None known to be edible. 



CAMAROPHYLLUS (Gr. a vault; a leaf). Page 152. 

 (From the arched shape of the gills.) 



Veil none. Stem even, smooth or fibrillose, not rough with points. 

 Pileus firm, opaque, moist after rain, not viscid. Gills distant, arcuate. 



* Gills deeply and at length obconically decurrent. 

 ** Gills ventricose, sinuately arcuate or plano-adnate. 



HYGROCYBE (Gr. moist; Gr. the head). Page 155. 



Veil none. Whole fungus thin, watery, succulent, fragile. Pileus when 

 moist viscid, shining when dry, rarely floccoso-scaly. Stem hollow, soft, 

 without dots. Gills soft. Most of the species are brightly colored and 

 shining. This tribe is the type of the genus. 



* Gills decurrent. 



** Gills adnexed, somewhat separating. 



LIMA'CIUM. 

 * White or yellowish-white. 



H. chry'sodon Fr. Gr. gold; a tooth. From tooth-like squamules. 

 Pileus 2-3 in. broad, white, shining when dry, but commonly yellowish 

 with minute adpressed squamules at the disk, light yz\\<yw-/locculose at 

 the involute margin, fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, viscid. Flesh 



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