II. erubescens Fr. Pileus broad, white, becoming reddish, fleshy, at 
first gibbous, viscid, at first with adpressed scales, margin naked; flesh 
firm, white; gills decurrent, distant, soft, white, red-spotted; stem 
robust, thinner upwards, sometimes long, solid, with red fibrils and dots. 
II. limacinus Fr. Pileus fleshy, smooth, viscid, becoming flattened* 
disk umber then fuliginous, paler round the margin; flesh white; gills 
adnate, then decurrent, somewhat distant, thin, white becoming slightly 
ashy; stem thick, solid, firm, viscous, ventricose, striate; roughened with 
squamules at the top. 
II. fuligineus Frost. Pileus becoming plane, smooth, glutinous, smoky 
brown, the disk darker, even almost black, margin sometimes wavy or 
irregular, and in old age reflexed; flesh white; gills adnate or decurrent, 
subdistant, white, often with veins in the inter-spaces; stem variable, 
solid, glutinous, white, or stained with smoky brown, with a silky white 
space free from gluten at the top. A large species, as are the preceding 
four, growing in moist woods under pines. E. 
11 .Jiavodiscus Frost. Similar in all points of structure to the last, but 
yellow; very viscid in the young stage. Grows with the last, but less 
abundantly. Much superior to the last in flavor, and one of the very best 
of edible mushrooms. E. 
II. hyflothejus Fr. Smaller than the preceding, pileus at first smeared 
with olivaceous gluten, then cinereous, becoming pale and even orange, 
thin, at length depressed; flesh white, becoming yellow; gills decurrent, 
distant, pallid but soon yellow or flesh color; stem stuffed, viscous, at 
length hollow; veil fugacious. Very variable. Dry soil under pines. E. 
II. virgineus Fr. Wholly white. Pileus fleshy, moist (not viscid) 
obtuse then depressed, cracked and floccose when dry; gills decurrent, 
distant, rather thick; stem curt, stuffed, firm, thinner towards the base, 
even and naked. To be distinguished from the next. E. 
II. nivens Fr. Wholly white. Smaller than the last, somewhat 
membranaceous, striate and viscid when moist, not cracked when dry, 
umbilicate, h vgrophanous; flesh thin; gills distant, decurrent, thin, 
arcuate; stem thick, fistulose, equal, tense and straight. E. 
11 . coccineus Fr. Bright scarlet, then pale, slightly fleshy, often unequal, 
obtuse, at first viscid, smooth; flesh of same color as pileus; gills adnate, 
decurrent with a tooth, distant, connected by veins, soft as if fatty, when 
full grown purplish at the base; stem thick, hollow, compressed, even, 
not slippery, scarlet above, always yellow at the base. E. 
H. miniatus Fr. Smaller than the last, at first vermilion, then pale and 
opaque, finally umbilicate and squamulose; gills adnate, distant, distinct, 
yellow; stem long in proportion, stuffed, round, smooth, shining, ver¬ 
milion.- E. 
II. pnniceus Fr. Often large, (2'-^'), blood-scarlet, becoming pale, 
obtuse, commonly repand and irregular, smooth and viscid ; flesh of same 
color; gills ascending, ventricose (in contrast to those of II. coccineus), 
broad, thick, distant, white or yellow, and often reddish at the base; stem 
at length hollow, stout, ventricose, attenuated at both ends, striate, 
usually scaly at the apex, always white and often incurved at the base, 
otherwise yellow or red. E. 
Other species are found through the season, but they are for the most 
part small and, though interesting, difficult to identify, and hardly of 
edible value. 
For Synopsis of N Y. Species of Tricholoma by C. H. Peck see the 44th Report of the N. Y 
State Museum. 
IIOLLIS WEBSTER, Secretary. 
Cambridge, Oct. 13th, 1897. 
