Murrill: Illustrations of Fungi 
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rimose-areolate with age, apple-red or purplish-red, often fading 
or becoming stained with yellow when old, margin irregular, 
sometimes upturned ; context flavous, changing slowly to blue at 
times when wounded, then back to flavous, taste mild ; tubes 
short, adnate, nearly plane, flavous when young, becoming ochra- 
ceous with age, changing slowly to blue or greenish-blue when 
wounded, mouths angular, of medium size, 2-3 to a mm. ; spores 
fusiform, smooth, pale-ochraceous-brown, 10-12 X 4~5 5 stipe 
nearly equal, firm, solid, yellow or red, sometimes slightly reticu- 
late at the top, changing to greenish-blue when bruised, smooth, 
nearly glabrous, showing dark dots under a lens, solid, flavous 
within, changing slowly to blue, 4-10 cm. long, 0.7-1. 5 cm. thick. 
This very beautiful species may be looked for in open deciduous 
woods from New England to North Carolina and west to Ohio 
and Kentucky. The pileus is red or purple, lacking the bloom 
found in C. Peckii, the tubes are yellow, soon changing, and the 
stipe is yellow or red, without the distinct reticulations found 
both in C. Peckii and C. speciosus. The larger plant figured rep- 
resents the stage in which the bright colors found in young speci- 
mens have somewhat faded. 
New York Botanical Garden 
