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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS OF CANADA
HYGROPHORUS BOREALIS Pk. Edible
Figure 190, page 113
PILEUS yg-l ^2
in. broad, slightly fleshy, convex to obtusely subumbonate,
at length slightly depressed on the disk, surface smooth, glabrous, moist,
occasionally slightly subviscid, watery white to white, margin decurved,
finally expanded, striatulate when moist, flesh thickish on the disk, white to
watery, odor and taste mild, lamellae not very broad, arcuate, decurrent,
subdistant to distant, white, trama of interwoven hyphae. stipe 1-21/2 iii-
long, approximately Vs ^^- thick, equal or tapering downward, white, smooth,
glabrous, stuffed, spores smooth, white, ellipsoid, 7-10 X 5-6.5 \i.
In groups, on the ground in woods. Aug.-Oct.
Hygrophorus niveus Fr. is said to differ from H. borealis in its thin submembranous
pileus, which is decidedly viscid. H. eburneus Fr. is usually
larger and is also viscid, and has the trama of the lamellae of divergent hyphae.
HYGROPHORUS CANTHARELLUS Schw. Edible
Figure 191, page 113
PILEUS y^-\ 54 in. broad, convex, with disk at first plane or shghtly
depressed, usually becoming decidedly depressed to umbilicate as pileus
expands, dry, glabrous at first but soon becoming minutely scurfy to squamu-
lose, bright scarlet, fading to orange or yellowish, margin often regularly
crisped, flesh thin, concolorous with or paler than the surface, odor and
taste not distinctive, lamellae decurrent to long-decurrent, subdistant, broad,
yellowish or tinged orange, paler than the pileus, trama of parallel hyphae.
STIPE 1 )4-3 Vi in. long, about i/g in. thick, equal or almost so, stuffed at first,
becoming hollow, glabrous, more or less concolorous with pileus, paler at the
base. SPORES smooth, white, broadly oval, apiculate, 8-10 X 4-6 ju-
In groups on the ground in moist woods or bogs. June-Oct. Fairly
common.
Some authors consider this to be a variety of H. miniatus and the two
species are very close but H. cantharellus has a longer, more slender stipe,
decidedly decurrent lamellae, and is usually not as broad. It is a very attractive
little mushroom and is reported to be edible.
HYGROPHORUS CHRYSODON Fr. Edible
Figures 192, 193, page 113
PILEUS 1-3 in. broad, at first convex with margin incurved, becoming
expanded, disk sometimes remaining obtusely subumbonate, white, viscid
when fresh, sprinkled with minute, golden yellow granules, flesh soft, white,
thick at the disk, odor and taste mild, lamellae decurrent, broad, subdistant
to distant, white, trama of divergent hyphae. stipe lJ/2-4 in. long, V^-Vi in.
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