Harper—Species of Hypholoma . 
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Dr. Peck separated the mild tasting forms of Hypholoma 
sublateritium and based on them a new species, Hypholoma 
perplex urn. It has usually been considered a form of Hypholoma 
sublateritium, compare Atkinson, Mushrooms, p. 27, but Peck 
retains the species in his later writings and bases it on other 
characters as well as taste. Wie have collected the form in the 
northern woods. It approaches in some respects Hypholoma 
epixanthum which is mild tasting and it is possible that Peck’s 
report of that species in Report 22 was based on this form. 
Peck does not include Hypholoma epixanthum in his summary 
of the X. Y. species and it seems to be little known in the United 
States, According to Cooke’s Illustration PI. 560 it is a bril¬ 
liant red and yellow plant of the size and habit of Hypholoma 
sublateritium. The gills are light yellow, becomming cinereous 
not purple or green, taste mild. It should be looked for on fir 
logs and stumps. 
We know nothing of Hypholoma elaeodes. It is said to be 
intermediate between Hypholoma fasciculare and Hypholoma 
sublateritium. Cooke PL 562/ figures it as a small dull colored 
variety of Hypholoma fasciculare. The figure shows a plant 
quite similar to our photograph of Hypholoma capnoides with 
more slender and flexuous stems. 
The abundant brick tops about' stumps and logs in Illinois, 
Wisconsin and Michigan we refer to Hypholoma sublateritium. 
The taste is mild or bitter. The plants are very common and 
much used for food. 
Hypholoma sublateritium, Schaeff. PI. LXXII. 
The plants are very common throughout our whole region. 
They grow in dense clusters about stumps and logs in woods 
and pastures. The species is illustrated by Cooke PI. 557. 
Our photograph of the young plants shows the character of the 
veil and the cobwebby covering of the caps. 
PiLEtrs 2-3 inches or more broad, fleshy, convex becoming 
plane, often irregular in crowded clusters, obtuse, glabrous, 
sometimes covered with a thin white cobwebby coat when young, 
