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tant, decurrent, white or slightly tinged with yellow; stem rather 

 long, nearly equal, solid, viscid, sometimes slightly fibrillose, whitish 

 or yellowish ; spores elliptic, .0003 of an inch long, .0002 broad. 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad ; stem 2-4 inches long, 2-4 lines thick. 



Gregarious. Under or near tamarack trees. Albany, Essex and 

 Warren counties. September and October. Edible. 



This is a beautiful mushroom but its bright colors fade with age 

 and in drying. The bright red or scarlet usually persists longest 

 in the center. Sometimes the umbo alone remains red. The species 

 is closely related to the European H. aureus Arrh. from which 

 it differs in its place of growth, its solid stem, the absence of any 

 tawny hues and of any vestiges of an annulus. H. bresadolae 

 Quel, and H . 1 u c o r u m Kalchb. are also closely related European 

 species from which our plant differs in its solid stem and the ab- 

 sence of any annulus. No red color is attributed in the descriptions, 

 to eitlier of the three species mentioned, but H. aureus is some- 

 times figured with a red center to the pileus. 



Hygrophorus subviolaceus Pk. 



VIOLET HYGROPHORUS 

 State Mus. Rcp't 53. 1899. p. 842, pi. C, fig. 11-15. 



Pileus firm, hemispheric, becoming convex, glabrous, viscid, viola- 

 ceous when fresh and moist, paler or grayish when dry, flesh white; 

 lamellae arcuate, decurrent, distant, pale violaceous ; stem equal or 

 tapering downward, solid, glabrous, white ; spores subglobose or 

 broadly elliptic, .00024-.0003 of an inch long, .0002-.00024 broad. 



Pileus T-T.5 inches broad; stem, 1-1.5 inches long, 2-4 lines thick. 



Damp mucky ground in swamps. Meadowdale, Albany co. 

 October. 



This species has been found but once. It is evidently very rare. 

 In drying the specimens become blackish or brown. It is related to 

 H . 1 a c m u s Fr. but differs from it in its solid stem, in the color 

 of the lamellae and in having no papilla or umbo on the pileus. 



Hygrophorus fuligineus Frost 



SOOTY HYGROPHORUS 



State Mus, Mem. 3, p. 146, pi. 50, fig. 7-12. 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, glabrous, very viscid or glutinous, 



grayish brown or fuliginous, often darker or almost black in the 



center; lamellae subdistant, adnate or decurrent, white; stem 



