156 SECTION HYGROCYBE 



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Hygrophorus miniatus (Fr.) Fr. var. miniatus 



Epicr. Myc. p. 330. 1838 



Agaricus miniatus Fr., Syst. Myc. 1: 105. 1821. 



Hygrophorus congelatus Pk., N. Y. State Cab. Ann. Rept. 23: 114. 



1872. 

 Hijgrocybe miniata (Fr.) Kummer, Fiihr. in Pilzk., p. 112. 1871. 

 Hygrophorus flammeus Schroeter, Die Pilze Schlesiens 31: 528. 1889. 

 Hygrophorus miniatus var. congelatus Pk., N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 116: 



61. 1907. 

 Hydrocybe constans Murr., Mycologia4: 208. 1912. 

 Hygrophorus constans Murr., Mycologia 4: 217. 1912. 

 Hydrocybe flammea (Scop.) Murr., North Amer. Flora 9: 381. 1916. 

 Hygrophorus miniatus Fr. var. typicus Sm. & Hes., Lloydia 5: 28. 1942. 



Illustrations: 



Fig. 43; also 8e. 



Bresadola, Icon. Myc, tab. 337, fig. 2. 



Juillard-Hartmann, Icon. Champ., pi. 48, fig. 14. 



Lange, Flora Agar. Dan. 5, pi. 166F (as Hygrocybe) . 



Murrill, Mvcologia 2, pi. 27, fig. 9. 



Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Ann. Rept. 48, pi. 28, figs. 1-10. 



Pomerleau, Mushrooms of Eastern Canada and the U. S., pi. 2, fig. 15. 



Ricken, Die Blatterp., pi. 8, fig. 9. 



Smith, Mushrooms in their Natural Habitats, Reel 12, No. 78. 



Thomas, Field Book of Common Gilled Mushrooms, pi. 10, fig. 60. 



Wakefield and Dennis, Common British Fungi, pi. 36, fig. 1. 



Pileus (1)2-4 cm broad, broadly convex margin incurved when 

 young, in age convex or plane, the disc often depressed or slightly 

 umbilicate, brilliant scarlet when moist and then appearing glabrous, 

 subhygrophanous, fading to orange or pale yellow and then minutely 

 fibrillose-scurfy, at times translucent striate when moist, occasionally 

 slightly rimose in age or when dried. Context thin, brittle, waxy, 

 concolorous with or paler than the surface, varying from scarlet to 

 orange or pale yellow, unchanging; odor not distinctive, taste mild or 

 slightly earthy. 



Lamellae bluntly adnate but becoming broadly adnexed, at times 

 subdecurrent, almost concolorous with the pileus, fading to orange or 

 yellow, close to subdistant, broad, becoming ventricose, the edges 

 eroded. 



Stipe 3-5 cm long ( up to 7 cm long when in deep humus ) , 3-4 mm 

 thick, concolorous with the pileus and fading slowly, hence usually 

 more reddish than the faded pilei, the cortex orange, glabrous or in 

 faded specimens faintly fibrillose, stuffed with a yellow pith, equal. 



Spores 6-8(10) X 4-5(6) /x, ellipsoid (a few apparently abnormal 

 spores shaped more or less like corn kernels are sometimes found), 



