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HYGROPHORUS
thick, equal or tapering downward, stuffed, viscid when fresh, white, sprinkled
with minute, golden yellow granules, especially toward the apex where they
sometimes form a yellowish annular zone, spores smooth, white, elHpsoid,
apiculate, 7-10 X 4-5 /x-
In groups on the ground in woods. Sept.-Oct.
The yellow granules on the pileus and at the apex of the stipe provide an
easy means of recognizing this species. It is apparently more common on the
west coast than in the east. It is reported to be edible although Smith and
Hesler (1939) report unfavorably on the flavor.
HYGROPHORUS CONICUS Fr. Suspected
Figure 194, page 113
PILEUS 1-2 in. broad, acutely conic to obtusely conic, remaining unex-
panded, orange-red, orange-yellow, or yellowish, often tinged with ohve to
blackish streaks, blackening when bruised or in age, glabrous, sometimes
obscurely fibrous-streaked, viscid when wet, becoming dry, margin often
splitting as the pileus expands, sometimes lobed. flesh thin, tinged orange,
odor and taste not distinctive, lamellae almost free, fairly close, moderately
broad, broadest in center, pallid yellowish, trama of parallel hyphae. stipe
1 54-35/2 ii^- long, 5/8-54 in. thick, equal, yellowish or orange-tinged, blackening
where bruised, moist or dry, becotning hollow, readily splitting longitudinally,
fibrillose-striate, the striations sometimes twisting around the stipe, spores
smooth, white, ovoid to slightly irregular 9-13 X (4.5) 5.5-6.5 (7.5) m-
In groups or singly on the ground in woods. Fairly common. June-Oct.
The entire fruit body blackens with age or on handling or drying but
traces of blackening can be found on nearly any plant, especially at the base of
the stipe or on the disk. The bright colors, conical shape, and twisted stipe are
characteristic features. H. cuspidatus Peck is somewhat similar in color and
shape but does not blacken.
HYGROPHORUS EBURNEUS Fr. Edible
Figure 244, page 154
PILEUS 1-3 in. broad, pure white, glutinous, convex or obtusely subum-
bonate, becoming expanded, margin at first slightly floccose and incurved,
becoming expanded, in age somewhat elevated, flesh white, rather thick on
the disk, odor and taste not distinctive, lamellae subdecurrent, becoming
decurrent, subdistant to distant, moderately broad, narrowing toward the
margin, pure white, becoming dingy with age, trama of divergent hyphae.
STIPE 2-6 in. long, 5/3-% in. thick, subequal or tapering downward, stuff'ed
then hollow, glutinous, pure white becoming dingy, apex dotted with minute
white squamules. spores smooth, white, ellipsoid, 6-8 X 4-5.5 /x.
In groups on the ground in woods. Sept.-Oct.
This is a fairly common species, distinguished by the very glutinous cov-
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