Var. elegans. Pileus purple-brown.
This sometimes appears on disused mushroom beds in large quantities, but the method by which the spores gain access is involved in darkness.
“A very suspicious species and has the reputation of being noxious.” Cooke.
“There is considerable external resemblance between this and A. campestris. No fungus is so often mistaken for A. campestris as this dangerous plant.” W.G. Smith.
This species is considered noxious abroad. No test is reported of its qualities here.
I have not seen it.
H. glutino´sum Lind.—gluten, glue. (Plate [LXXI], fig. 1, p. 268.) Pileus about 3 in. broad, yellow-white, the disk darker, fleshy, convex then plane, regular, obtuse, with a tenacious viscous gluten, and slimy in wet weather, sprinkled with white superficial scales. Flesh whitish, becoming light-yellow. Stem 3 in. long, stuffed, firm, somewhat bulbous, white-scaly and fibrillose, and white-mealy at the top, often rough with bundles of hairs at the base, at length rust-color within. Partial thread-like veil manifest, in the form of a cortina. Gills sinuato-adnate, somewhat decurrent, crowded, broad, pallid then light-yellowish, at length clay-cinnamon. Odor peculiar, mild.
On branches and among leaves, oak and beech. Frequent. September to December. Stevenson.
Spores 5×4µ W.P.; plum-shaped, 7µ Q.; elliptical, 10–12×5µ Massee; ellipsoid, 6–7×3–4µ K.
New York. Among fallen leaves and half-buried decaying wood, in thin woods. Conklingville. September. In wet weather the gluten is sufficiently copious to drop from the pileus. Peck, Rep. 40.