24 BULLETIN" 175, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



In Hygrophorus the cap is sometimes regular but often plicate or 

 folded and the margin irregular, wavy, or lobed. The genus is com- 

 prised of many attractive species, some of which are conspicuous 

 because of their bright colors. 



Hygrophorus chrysodon. (Edible.) 



Cap fleshy, convex, then expanded, margin involute when young, viscid, shining 

 when dry, white, with scattered golden squamules; gills white, distant, decurrent; 

 stem stuffed, soft, nearly equal, white, with minute yellow squamules, more numer- 

 ous toward the apex, where they are often arranged in the form of a ring. 



Cap 2 to 3 inches broad; stem 2 to 3 inches long. 



. This plant is easily recognized on account of the golden granules on the cap and 

 stem. It grows on the ground in woods or open situations in the late summer and fall, 

 but is not of very common occurrence. 



Hygrophorus coccineus. (Edible.) 



Cap convexo-plane, obtuse, hygrophanous, smooth, scarlet, becoming yellowish in 

 age, fragile, generally unequal; gills adnate, decurrent with a tooth, distant, con- 

 nected by veins, light yellow in the middle, purplish at the base when mature; stem 

 hollow then compressed, base always yellow, scarlet upward. 



Cap 1 to 2 inches broad; stem about 2 inches long. 



This species occurs in moist places and on mossy banks. 



Hygrophorus conicus. (Edible.) 



Cap strikingly conical, yellow, orange, scarlet, margin often lobed; gills free or 

 adnate, rather loose and broad, yellow; stem equal, hollow, fibrous striate, yellow or 

 scarlet. 



Cap one-half to 1 inch broad ; stem 3 to 5 inches long. 



This is a very attractive little fungus on account of its bright color and symmetrical 

 conical cap. A very distinctive character is the blackening of the fungus in drying. 

 It occurs on the ground in rich woods and in damp places near streams from August to 

 September or later. 



Hygrophorus eburaeus. (Edible.) 



Cap fleshy, sometimes thin, again moderately thick, convex to expanded, smooth, 

 white, exceedingly glutinous, margin involute when young, later wavy; gills de- 

 current, distant, veined at the base; stem unequal, spongy to stuffed, sometimes 

 hollow, glutinous, attenuated toward the base. 



Cap 1 to 3 inches broad; stem quite variable in length. 



This species possesses a fair flavor and mild odor, but is of rather tough consistency. 

 It occurs in woods and pastures in the fall, September to October. 



Hygrophorus hypothejus. (Edible.) 



Cap convex, somewhat depressed, at first covered with an olivaceous slime, after 

 its disappearance ash colored, pale yellow, orange, or often rufescent ; flesh thin, white, 

 becoming light yellow; gills decurrent, distant, whitish or pallid, later yellow or 

 flesh colored; stem equal, viscid, stuffed, becoming hollow, paler than the cap. 



Cap 1 to 1^ inches broad; stem 2 or more inches long. 



This is an interesting little species, occurring late in the fall in pine woods. The 

 partial veil is floccose, but early fugacious, and is of such a transitory character that it 

 is of very little value to the amateur in identifying the species. It is edible, though 

 not especially adapted to cooking, but when dried it is nutty and fairly palatable. 



