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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS OF CANADA
nearly so, silky-fibrillose, whitish or grayish, stuffed to hollow, spores pink,
angular, 7-9 X 6.5-8 /x-
SoHtary or in groups on the ground in the woods. July-Oct.
E. sericeum is close to this species but is smaller, and has a dark brown
pileus with an umbo.
ENTOLOMA RHODOPOLIUM (Fr.) Kummer
Figure 249, page 155
PILEUS 1-3 in. broad, firm, campanulate, becoming expanded to nearly
plane, hygrophanous, umber brown or smoky brown when moist, fading to
pale brownish gray, silky-shining when dry, glabrous, not viscid but the sur-
face slightly slippery, margin even, wavy, flesh whitish, spHtting easily, taste
mild, lamellae adnate, becoming emarginate, subdistant, broad, whitish at
first, becoming deep rose, stipe 11/^-4 in. long, V^-Vi in. thick, equal or
tapering up or down, sometimes curved, white, glabrous, somewhat floccose
at apex, stuffed then hollow, easily spHtting longitudinally, spores rosy pink,
angular, 8-10.5 X 7-9 m-
SoHtary, in groups, or in clusters of two or three, on the ground in mixed
or deciduous woods. July-Oct.
The pileus of this species is almost cartilaginous in texture and this charac-
ter together with the white stipe and rosy spores and lamellae form its dis-
tinguishing characters. In E. griseum the stipe is more grayish and the spore
color is not so bright.
ENTOLOMA SALMON EUM Peck
Figure 250, page 155
PILEUS 1/4-1 1/2 (2) in. broad, fragile, conical to campanulate, with a sHght
umbo or papilla, rosy salmon to orange-salmon, becoming more brownish in
age, glabrous at first, the older ones appearing sHghtly fibrillose-tomentose,
margin straight, even, becoming upturned in age. flesh very thin, lamellae
adnexed, subdistant, broad, narrowed at ends, yellowish salmon to pinkish
salmon, stipe 2-3 in. long, j/fe-^ i^- thick, equal, glabrous, pruinose at the
apex, concolorous, hollow, spores pink, 4-angled, nearly square, 11-13 ^
measured diagonally.
In groups, usually among mosses in damp woods. July-Sept.
This is a beautiful and deHcate species. It can easily be confused with
Hygrophorus amoenus (Lasch) Quel, which is similar in coloring and stature
but has smooth, white spores. E. cuspidatum Peck is somewhat similar in
stature but is yellow and has a prominent papilla in the center of the pileus.
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