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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS OF CANADA
subumbonate, smooth, viscid, dark gray-brown on the disk, paler toward the
margin, streaked with blackish fibrils beneath the viscid layer, flesh white,
thickest on the disk, odor and taste mild, lamellae broad, white, close to sub-
distant, broadly adnate to subdecurrent, trama of divergent hyphae. stipe
1 Yi-^Vi in. long, i4-!/2
in. thick, soHd, equal or tapering toward the base or
apex, streaked up to an annular zone with dark gray fibrils under a viscid
coating, white above this zone, occasionally with the fibrils on the lower part
of the stipe arranged in a series of rings or bands, spores smooth, white, oval,
apiculate, 9-12 X 5-7 fi.
In groups on the ground beneath conifers. Sept.-Oct.
The stipe in this species has a double sheath, an outer glutinous layer and
an inner fuscous-fibrillose layer which breaks up into irregular bands as the
stipe elongates. H. paludosus Peck is very similar but does not have the fuscous
inner sheath on the stipe, and in wet weather it develops greenish spots and
stains on the lamellae and upper part of the stipe. H . fuligineus Frost is darker
colored and has smaller spores. H. tephroleucus Fr. is a smaller gray species
with whitish fibrils on the stipe, which soon become gray.
HYGROPHORUS PRATENSIS Fr. Edible
Figure 203, page 115
PILEUS %-3 in. broad, fleshy, convex or with a broad obtuse umbo, often
turbinate, smooth, dry, sometimes cracking around the disk, light reddish
brown fading to pinkish tan or pale tan, margin at first incurved, gradually
becoming expanded, in age the margin becoming elevated and the disk somewhat
depressed, flesh thick on the disk, tinged the color of the pileus, odor
and taste mild, lamellae thick, decurrent, distant, intervenose, rather broad,
narrowing toward the margin, flesh colored, trama of interwoven hyphae.
stipe 1 1/2-3 in. long, 14-I/2 in. thick, equal or tapering upward or downward,
stuff'ed, dry, pallid or tinged the color of the pileus. spores smooth, white,
ellipsoid, 6-8 X 4-5 m-
Oct.
In groups on the ground in woods and open places, fairly common. July-
The stipe is usually short and the pileus more or less top-shaped. It often
grows in more open and exposed places and sometimes fades to whitish.
HYGROPHORUS PSITTACINUS Fr. Not edible
Figure 204, page 115
pileus yg-iyg in. broad, conic-campanulate becoming convex or ex-
panded, sometimes persistently umbonate, at first deep ohve-green to parrot-
green, quickly fading on drying out to salmon color, flesh color, pinkish
orange or yellowish, smooth, glabrous, sHmy-viscid and very shppery when
moist, margin striate when moist, flesh thin, fragile, brittle, more or less con-
colorous with the pileus. lamellae adnate, moderately broad, subdistant,
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