Leucosporae 



everywhere becomes red and the pileus often rosy blood-color. Hand- Hygrophoms. 

 some, growing in troops, commonly forming large lax circles. 



In pine woods. Stevenson. 



Spores ellipsoid, very obtuse at both ends, 8-10x4-5^1 K.; 8x4/01 

 Cooke. 



Edible. Cooke. 



*** Tawny or yellow. 



H. ni'tidus B. and Rav. shining. Pileus thin, fleshy, convex, 

 broadly umbilicate, smooth, shining, viscid, pale yellow with the margin 

 striatulate when moist, nearly white when dry. Gills arcuate, decurrent, 

 yellow. Stem slender, brittle, smooth, viscid, hollow, yellow. Flesh 

 yellow. 



Height 2-4 in., breadth of Pileus 8-12 lines. Stem 1-2 lines thick. 



Swamps. Sandlake. August. 



The cavity of the stem is very small. Peck, 23d Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Found in many states and places, usually on moist ground beside 

 streams, or spring heads. It sometimes parades itself in irregular pro- 

 cessions, at others in sparse patches. It is delicate in flavor, and tender 

 cooked. 



**** Olivaceous-umber. 



H. limaci'nus Fr. Umax, a slug. Pileus i/ 2/ in. broad, disk 

 ^lmber then sooty, paler round the margin, fleshy, convex then flattened, 

 obtuse, smooth, viscid. Flesh rather firm, white. Stem 2-3 in. long, 

 % in. thick, solid, firm, ventricose, sticky, flocculose, fibrilloso-striate, 

 roughened with squamules at the apex. Gills adnate, then decurrent, 

 somewhat distant, thin, white inclining to ash-color. Fries. 



Veil entirely viscous, not floccose. 



In woods among damp leaves. Stevenson. 



Spores I2X4/A Cooke. 



New York, Peck, Rep. 34. Thin woods and open places. 



Reported edible Bulletin No. 5, 1897, Boston Mycological Club. 



H. hypotll'ejus Fr. Gr. under; Gr. sulphur (under gluten). 

 Pileus 1-2 in. broad, at first smeared with olivaceous gluten, ash-col- 

 ored, when the gluten disappears, becoming pale and yellowish, orange 



