Porphyrosporse 

 ANALYSIS OF TRIBES. 



FASCICULARES (H. fascicularis). Page 354. 

 Pileus tough, smooth, bright colored, not hygrophanous. Hyphoioma. 



VlSClDl (viscidus, viscid). 

 Pileus naked, viscid. None known to be edible. 



VELUTINI (H. velutinus). Page 360. 

 Pileus silky or streaked with small fibers. 



FLOCCULOSI (floccus, a lock of wool). 



Pileus covered with superficial floccose scales, at length disappearing. 

 (None reported edible.) 



APPENDICULATI (//". appendiculatus) . Page 362. 

 Pileus smooth, hygrophanous. 



Members of this purple-spored genus grow upon decayed wood, 

 either standing or as roots in the ground, or from ground heavily laden 

 with woody material. They grow singly, in groups, or in densely- 

 tufted or overlapping masses. The several species vary in shades of 

 yellow, red, orange, brick-color and brown; their caps are from i 6 in. 

 across ; their stems are short or long, as the number in the cluster per- 

 mits ; when growing singly the stems are short and sturdy. There is a 

 floccose veil, or remnants of one, about the stem. The gills are yel- 

 lowish, greenish, olivaceous or greenish shades of yellow, gray, purple, 

 almost black. They are showy, easily recognized and are found from 

 September until mid-winter. I have gathered them when frozen hard. 

 The flesh is solid, or spongy, flexible or fragile, white or yellowish; the 

 tastes are sweet, nutty, bitter and saponaceous. Patches of them and 

 they are frequent in almost every woods in the land often yield several 

 bushels. Tons of them annually go to waste. 



Old authors and some copyists say "the species are not edible, the 

 tough ones being bitter, the fragile ones almost void of flesh." Eighteen 

 years of experience with them warrants my saying that there is not a 

 single wild genus approaching it in economic value, and when its most 

 prominent species are properly cooked, few equal it in consistency and 

 flavor. As a pickle the Hypholomas have no superior. 

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