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collect for food. It is reported from New England to Alabama 

 and west to Minnesota, but it may have been confused with some 

 forms of Hygrophorus Cantharellus, which it much resembles. 



Hygrophorus coccineus (Schaeff.) Fries 

 Scarlet Hygrophorus 



Plate 27. Figure 7. X I 



Pileus thin, fragile, convex to plane, obtuse, 2-5 cm. broad; 

 surface glabrous, viscid, scarlet, fading to pale-red, and finally 

 yellowish ; flesh whitish or yellowish, edible ; gills adnate or with 

 a decurrent tooth, distant, interveined, pale-yellow or reddish; 

 spores ellipsoid, hyaline, 6-8 X 4-5 ; stem cylindric or com- 

 pressed, glabrous, hollow, scarlet above, yellow below, 3-5 X 0.3 

 cm. 



This brilliantly colored species occurs in moist pastures and 

 on mossy banks in Europe and eastern North America, having 

 been reported from Greenland to North Carolina and west as 

 far as Minnesota. 



Hygrophorus conicus (Scop.) Fries 

 Conic Hygrophorus 



Plate 27. Figure 8. X | 



Pileus thin, fragile, conic, usually acute, often lobed at the 

 margin, 2-4 cm. broad; surface viscid when moist, glabrous or 

 fibrillose, sometimes becoming rimose, some shade of red or 

 yellow, at times tinged with green, almost always turning black on 

 drying ; flesh thin, suffused with rosy hues ; gills almost free, 

 attenuate behind, thin, rather crowded, ventricose, yellow, 

 blackening on drying; spores ellipsoid, hyaline, 9-11X6-8/X; 

 stem equal, fibrous-striate, hollow, yellow, becoming black on 

 drying, 3-10 X 0.3-0.7 cm. 



This species is usually readily distinguished by its conic cap 

 with acute apex, as well as by its change of color to black on 

 drying. It is common in moist woods and grassy places from 

 Greenland to the Bahamas, and also occurs in Europe. 



