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