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Hygrophorus puniceus | Fr, I Fr. 



Epicr. Mvc. p. 331. L838 



Agaricus puniceus Fr., Syst. Myc. L: L04. IS21. 



Hygrocybe punicea (Fr.) Kummer, Fiihr. in Pilzk., p. 112. I ST I . 



Illustrations: 



Fig. 59. 



Bonme, Norsk Soppbok, pi. 2. fig. L3. 



Bresadola, [con. Myc, tab. 3 15. 



Fries. S\ . Aetl. Svamp., pi. 77. 



Juillard-l [artmann, Icon. Champ., pi. 17. fig. 2. 



Kauffman, Agar. Mali., pi. 30 (as //. coccineus , 



Lange, Flora Agar. Dan. 5, pi. 167B. 



Murrill. Mycologia 2. pi. 27, fig. 5. 



Peck, X. Y. State Mus. Bull. 5, pi. 58, figs. 1-7. 



Peek. N. Y. State Mus. Mem. 3, 52. figs. 1-7. 



Ramsbottom. Mushrooms and Toadstools, pi. 12. 



Ricken, Die Blatterp., pi. Sjig. 2. 



Smith and Hesler, Lloydia 5, pi. 11. 



Thomas, Field Book of Common Gilled Mushrooms, pi. 10, fig. 62. 



Wakefield and Dennis, Common British Fungi, pi. 36, fig. 2. 



Pileus 2-4(7) cm broad, obtusely conic and the margin incurved 

 when young, becoming umbonate to plane, the margin sometimes re- 

 maining decurved and sometimes spreading or recurved, color deep 

 blood red over all at first, fading in streaks (as if hygrophanous) to 

 near "zinc orange," in age pale orange over all, glabrous, viscid, mar- 

 gin sometimes translucent striate. Context thin, fragile, waxy, sordid 

 waterv-reddish orange, becoming pale orange-yellow, unchanging; 

 odor and taste mild. 



Lamellae bluntly adnate with a decurrent tooth at first, becoming 

 adnexed and sometimes seceding in age, reddish orange to pale vellow, 

 subdistant, broad, edges even. 



Stipe 2-7 cm long, (5)10-15 mm thick, reddish but soon fading to 

 orange or yellow, base white or yellowish, yellow to orange within, 

 more or less fibrillose-striate, equal or narrowed slightlv at the base, 

 sometimes slightly ventricose, stuffed to hollow . 



Spores (7)8-11(12) X (3.5)4-6 M , subellipsoid to oblong, smooth. 

 yellowish in Melzer's reagent. Basidia 32-65 x 6-11 /x, usually 4-spored. 

 at times 1-, 2-, 3-spored. Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia none. Cill 

 trama subparallel, hyphae 8-20 jx broad, the cells long and cylindric, 

 basidia, subhvmenium, and trama all yellow in Melzer's reagent. Cuti- 

 cle a gelatinous pellicle, which is 12.5-175 /x thick, the hyphae 3-5 /< 

 broad. No hypodermium differentiated. Pileus trama of radial hyphae. 

 Clamp connections present on the cuticular hyphae. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distbibution — Gregarious to scattered under 

 hardwoods and conifers, Nova Scotia to Manitoba in Canada, Maine. 



