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HYGROPHORUS
thick especially next to the flesh, somewhat intervenose, greenish at first, soon
fading to flesh color, orange, or yellowish, trama of parallel hyphae. stipe
1/4-2/4 iri- long, about i/g in. thick, equal, glabrous, sHppery-viscid, at first
green, drying to flesh color or yellowish, the apex retaining the green color
longest, hollow, spores smooth, white, oval, obHquely apiculate, 6-9 X 4-5 fi.
In groups on the ground in grassy places and woods. July-Oct.
The bright green color is unusual in mushrooms and this is an attractive
fungus for collectors, but is too small and sHmy to be of any interest as food.
The color fades rather rapidly but traces of it can usually be found around the
margin of the pileus and at the apex of the stipe. Faded specimens might be
confused with H. laetus Fr., which is very variable in color and may be of
mixed colors, but it is not bright green and the lamellae are decurrent.
HYGROPHORUS PUDORINUS Fr. Edible
Figure 205, page 115
The Blushing Hygrophorus
pileus 1 J4-4 in. broad, fleshy, convex to somewhat campanulate with
incurved margin, becoming expanded but disk tending to remain obtuse,
smooth, glabrous, viscid, pale pinkish tan. flesh rather thick, firm, white or
pinkish, odor and taste mild, lamellae not very broad, adnate to subdecur-
rent, thick, subdistant, intervenose and tending to fork, whitish to cream or
flesh colored, trama of divergent hyphae. stipe stout, 1 )/^-3 Yi in. long, J4-
% in. thick, equal or tapering downward, solid or stuff'ed, dry, whitish or
tinged the color of the pileus, somewhat fibrillose below, apex dotted with
minute white flecks which become reddish as the plant dries, spores smooth,
white, ellipsoid, apiculate, 7-9 X 4-5.5 /x.
In groups or slightly clustered on the ground in woods. Sept.-Oct.
According to Smith and Hesler (1939) there is some doubt as to whether or
not this is the true H. pudorinus and there is a western species, H. fragrans
Murr., which diff'ers in having the base of the stipe ochraceous and tends to
stain yellow when bruised, and which in some respects seems closer to the
original description of H. pudorinus.
HYGROPHORUS PUNICEUS Fr. Edible
Figures 207, 208, page 115
pileus 1-2 J4 in. broad, at first bluntly conic with incurved margin,
expanding to convex or nearly plane, disk often remaining obtusely umbonate,
smooth, glabrous, viscid, deep blood-red when fresh, soon becoming streaked
with orange, finally fading entirely to orange, flesh thin, watery, reddish
orange to yellowish, odor and taste not distinctive, lamellae adnate to
adnexed, broad, subdistant, reddish orange to yellowish, trama of parallel
hyphae. stipe lJ/2-314 in. long, I4-/4 in. thick, subequal or tapering at the
base, stuffed then hollow, at first reddish above, fading to orange, then yellow,
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