394 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [Volumes 9 
13. Hygrophorus hypothejus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 324. 1838. 
Agaricus hypothejus Fries, Obs. Myc. 2:10. 1818. 
Hygrophorus fuligineus Frost & Peck; Peck, Ann. Rep. N. VY. State Mus. 35: 134. 1884. 
Hygrophorus elegantulus Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 200. 1895. 
Hygrophorus amygdalinus Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 25:322. 1898. 
Hygrophorus Morrisii Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 64. 1899, 
Hydrocybe arenicola Murrill, Mycologia 4: 208. 1912. 
Hygrophorus subpusiulatus Murrill, Mycologia 4: 210. 1912, 
Pileus convex to slightly depressed, often with a small umbo, gregarious, 2.5-10 cm. broad; 
surface smooth, glutinous, yellowish-olive or tawny to fuliginous, usually darker on the disk, 
margin sometimes wavy or irregular: context white or yellowish; lamellae moderately broad, 
slightly decurrent, rarely adnate, rather distant, white or cream-colored to light-orange-yellow, 
the interspaces often veiny: spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 5-10 X 4-5 uw: stipe variable in 
length, equal or ventricose, sometimes attenuate at the base, stuffed, glutinous, except at the 
apex, white or yellowish, rarely darker below, 4-10 cm. long, 0.5-2 cm. thick: veil partial, floc- 
cose, evanescent. 
Type LocaLiry: Sweden. 
Hasirat: In pine woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Throughout temperate North America; also in Europe. . 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 49: pl. 45, f. 8-14; Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi f. 114; 
Boudier, Ic. Myc. pl. 32; Gill. Champ. Fr. pl. 126 (337); Hard, Mushrooms f. 169; Mem. N. Y. State 
Mus: 3: pl. 50, f. 7-12. 
Exsiccatt: Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 1403; Krieger, Fungi Sax. 481; Sydow, Myc. Mar. 
615, 3104. 
14. Hygrophorus fragrans Murrill, Mycologia 4: 210. 1912. 
Pileus convex to depressed, not umbonate, gregarious, decidedly fragrant when dry, 8-10 
cm. broad; surface smooth, glabrous, viscid, roseous to incarnate, with white margin and some- 
what darker center: context rather thick and fleshy, white; lamellae adnate, distant, inserted, 
white: spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, averaging 8 X 5 yu: stipe long, equal, solid, furfuraceous, 
whitish to cremeous or ochraceous, punctate with reddish-brown dots in dried specimens and 
turning reddish-brown where handled, reaching 10 cm. long and 2 em. thick. 
Type LOCALITY: Corvallis, Oregon. 
Hasirat: In low coniferous woods. 
DistRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
15. Hygrophorus roseibrunneus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus very irregular, convex to depressed, often umbonate, solitary or gregarious, 3-7 
cm. broad; surface smooth, viscid, light-pinkish-brown toward the margin, deeper brown at 
the center, margin entire: context white, spongy, without characteristic odor or taste; lamellae 
decurrent, white, not crowded: spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 6-8 X 4-5 u: stipe fleshy, 
subequal, compressed, white, farinose, smooth, usually solid, 5-10 em. long, 6-12 mm. thick. 
Type collected under an oak tree at Jasper Ridge, near Stanford University, California, Januar 
11, 1912, James McMurphy 135 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). ae ad a 
Hasitat: Under oak trees. 
DistRIBUTION: Throughout most of southern California. 
16.. Hygrophorus variicolor Murrill, Mycologia 4: 209. 1912. 
Pileus rather thick and fleshy, convex to nearly plane, sometimes umbonate, solitary, 
5-12 em. broad; surface smooth, the center moist, subviscid, and glabrous, the margin dry and 
hispid-scaly, color varying from fulvous at the center to ferruginous-fulvous between center and 
margin, and stramineous on a marginal zone 1-5 cm. broad: lamellae squarely adnate, some- 
what decurrent in large plants, subdistant, inserted, white, waxy, changing to reddish-brown 
on drying: spores ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 6-8 X 44.5 uw: stipe fleshy, subequal, white, pul- 
verulent, 4 cm. long, nearly 1 cm. thick: veil represented by a few short, brownish fibrils at the 
middle of the stipe. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mill City, Oregon. 
Hasitat: On the ground in low woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Oregon and Washington. 
