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Ajraricus hsemorrlioidarius Schulz, Pk. Rep., 1900: 183. Bleed- 

 ing Mushroom. Pileus fleshy, ovate or hemispheric, becoming broadly 

 convex or nearly plane, fibrillose or squamose, brown with darker scales. 



(Plate CCVIII.) 



Flesh white or whitish, turning red 

 where wounded ; taste and odor agree- 

 able, Lamellae rather broad, close, 

 free, pink, becoming brown. Stem 

 equal or slightly tapering upward, 

 sometimes bulbous, hollow, fibrillose, 

 slightly squamulose toward the base, 

 white, becoming darker with age. 

 Spores brown, elliptic. 



The bleeding mushroom is easily 

 recognized, when fresh, by the red 

 color assumed by wounds of the flesh 

 either of the cap or stem. This char- 

 acter is also found in the seashore 

 mushroom, A. maritimus , a species 

 that has a solid stem and has not yet 

 been found growing far from the sea. 

 The cap is generally some shade of 

 brown, but sometimes when young it 

 is white. It is adorned with darker 

 fibrils or scales, though these sometimes become obscure or disappear 

 with age. When young it is hemispheric or very convex, but it soon 

 becomes broadly convex or nearly flat, with the center either slightly 

 depressed or somewhat prominent. The flesh is generally whitish or 

 grayish white when first exposed to the air. It assumes the red color 

 rather slowly and after a time loses it again. 



The gills are pink or rarely whitish when young, but become brown 

 or blackish brown with age. The stem is long or short, cylindric or 

 tapering upward, sometimes slightly thickened or bulbous at the base, 

 sometimes not. It is hollow, but the cavity small, at first fibrillose and 

 more or less adorned with floccose scales toward the base, but these 

 generally disappear with age, and the primary white color of the stem 

 is 'apt to become darker with age. The collar is membranaceous and 

 at first conceals the gills. It is persistent, silky and white or whitish, 

 sometimes tinged with brown. 



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