Gregarious, somewhat cespitose. Taste very stinging. The stem is not strigosely sheathed at the base. Fries.
In mixed woods. Frequent. June to September.
A curious form occurred with the pileus turning very dark when full-grown. B. and Br. POISONOUS. Worthington Smith has tested it by accident. It produced headache, swimming of brain, burning in throat and stomach, followed by severe purging and vomiting. Stevenson.
Gregarious or cespitose. Taste very pungent, a feature which separates the present from M. oreades. Not coarsely tomentose at the base, as in M. peronatus, but only downy. Massee.
Spores 3×4µ W.G.S.; elliptical, 8×4µ Massee.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia. McIlvaine.
I have not known it to disagree with myself or friends. That it may not agree with some persons is unquestioned. Collectors should carefully test it upon themselves.
M. perona´tus Fr.—pero, a kind of boot. Pileus 1–2 in. and more broad, light yellowish or pallid brick-red, then becoming pale, wood-color or tan, at first fleshy-pliant, then coriaceo-membranaceous, convex then plane, obtuse, flaccid, slightly wrinkled, even at the disk, at length pitted, striate at the margin. Flesh white. Stem 2–3 in. long, 1–2 lines thick, stuffed, fibrous, tough, attenuated upward, at length hollow and compressed, furnished with a bark, light yellow then pallid, cuticle villous but separating and reddish when rubbed, somewhat incurved at the base, where it is clothed with dense, somewhat strigose, yellowish or white villous down. Gills adnexed, then separating, free, moderately thin, and crowded, when young whitish, pallid wood-color, at length somewhat remote, reddish.
B. Woolly sheathed at the base. Taste acrid like that of M. urens, odor none. Fries.
In woods. Common. Stevenson.