Agaricacese 



Hygrophorus. Found at Angora and Kingsessing, Philadelphia, 1887. August to 

 October. Open grassy places in woods, and in pastures. Scattered 

 and in troops. Excellent. Stew slowly. 



H. cantharel'lus Schw. Gr. a small vase. (Plate XXXVII, fig. 

 5, p. 146.) PileilS thin, convex, at length umbilicate or centrally de- 

 pressed, minutely squamulose, moist, bright red, becoming orange or 

 yellow. Gills distant, subarcuate, decurrent, yellow, sometimes tinged 

 with vermilion. Stem smooth, equal, subsolid, sometimes becoming 

 hollow, concolorous, whitish within. 



Height 2-4 in., breadth of pileus 6-12 lines. Stem 1-2 lines thick. 



Swamps and damp shaded places in fields or woods. July to Sep- 

 tember. Common. Peck, 23d Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Var. fldva. Pileus and stem pale yellow. Gills arcuate, strongly 

 decurrent. 



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



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



Var. Ro sea. Has the pileus expanded and the margin wavy scal- 

 loped. Swamps. Sandlake. Peck, 2$d Rep. 



Common in the Adirondack region, and throughout Pennsylvania 

 and New Jersey, in all its varieties. 



The resemblance to H. miniatus in color is great, but there is a marked 

 difference in the gills, which extend further down the thinner stem. It 

 is tougher, and takes longer to cook. It has a flavor of its own which 

 is enjoyed by some and condemned by others. 



H. COCCl'neilS Schaeff. of a scarlet color. (Plate CXXXVI, fig. 6, 

 p. 508.) Pileus 1-2 in. and more broad, at first bright scarlet, then 

 soon changing color and becoming pale, slightly fleshy, convex, then 

 plane and often unequal, obtuse, at first viscid and even, smooth, not 

 floccose-scaly. Flesh of the same color as the pileus. Stem 2 in. long, 

 34 lines thick, hollow, then compressed and rather even, not slippery, 

 scarlet upward, always yellow at the base. Gills wholly adnate, decur- 

 rent with a tooth, plane, distant, connected by veins, watery-soft as if 

 fatty, when full grown purplish at the base, light yellow in the middle, 

 glaucous at the edge. Fries. 



Flesh of the pileus descending into the gills and forming a trama of 

 the same color. Fragile. Varying in stature, easily mistaken for some 



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