Subject: Almond-scented mushrooms
From: [email-masked]
Date: 27 Jul 1994 17:53:33 -0700
Newsgroups: bionet.mycology

Russula fragrantissima has been described as almond scented. 
It does become fishy or foul later as noted by one
correspondent.  It is brown and does come up in the summer. 
However in wet weather it should be sticky.  Hygrophorus
bakerensis is strictly western and should not be near Ottawa
(where I am based).  Hygrophorus agathosmus is also almond
scented and does occur in the east but it is gray brown.  It
too is viscid to sticky in wet weather.