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17. Hygrophorus subpratensis Murrill, Mycologia 3: 199. 1911. 
Pileus convex, obtuse, gregarious, 3-4 cm. broad; surface pale-fuscous when young, be- 
coming pallid or whitish with darker disk, slimy-viscid, not striate, the pellicle separable: 
context white, unchanging, the odor and taste mild; lamellae deeply sinuate, broad, crowded, 
white: spores globose or subglobose, smooth, hyaline, 5 4: stipe cylindric, equal, slimy-viscid, 
white, solid but spongy, 3-4 em. long, 3-4 mm. thick: veil slimy-viscid, scarcely leaving an 
annulus. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. 
Hasitat: On lawns and on banana trash. 
DIsTRIBUTION: Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. 
18. Hygrophorus montanus Murrill, Mycologia 3: 199. 1911. 
Pileus plane or convex, smooth, depressed, gregarious, 2.5 em. broad; surface smooth, 
viscid, stramineous to isabelline, with a testaceous tint, margin incurved, white, entire: lamellae 
adnexed, rather broad, yellowish-white, discolored in blotches on drying, pruinose on the edges: 
spores pip-shaped, smooth, faintly yellowish, 8-10 x 4-5: stipe shining, watery-white, 
smooth, cylindric, equal, fleshy-fibrous, 4 cm. long, 5 mm. thick: veil very slight, not forming 
an anntilus. 
TYPE Locality: New Haven Gap, Jamaica. 
HasitaT: On the ground in a trail. 
DisTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
Hygrophorus caerulescens Berk. & Curt. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 4: 292. 1859. De- 
scribed from specimens collected by Sprague among dead leaves and sticks in woods in New 
England. Like all Sprague’s collections at Kew, this is accompanied by excellent notes and 
a beautiful sketch, which is very similar to Camarophyllus fulvosus in shape. ‘The pileus is 
described as “delicate blue-drab,” the lamellae as “much decurrent, of a deeper colour 
than the pileus,’”’ and the stipe as ‘ white with a light blue tint.” 
Hygrophorus capreolarius (Kalchbr.) Fries, Hymen. Eur. 407. 1874. (Hygrophorus 
erubescens capreolarius Kalchbr. Ic. Hymen. Hung. 35. 1874.) Reported from North Elba, 
New York, by Peck, but I find no specimens at Albany that correspond with European material. 
Hygrophorus cossus (Sow.) Fries, Epicr. Myc. 321. 1838. (Agaricus cossus Sow. Engl. 
Fungi p]. 121. 1798.) Reported from New York by Peck but later omitted from his list 
because the determination of specimens was doubtful. The species is very similar to H. 
jozzolus, but has a strong odor. 
Hygrophorus erubescens Fries, Epicr. Myc. 322. 1838. Reported from severak of the 
eastern states by the older mycologists and more recently from New Jersey by Ellis and 
New York by Peck. Specimens so named at Albany are quite different from authentic 
European specimens, having a shorter stipe, more crowded lamellae, and much paler colors. 
Hygrophorus fuscoalbus (Lasch) Fries, Epicr. Myc. 324. 1838. Reported by Peck as 
rare in northern New York, occurring under spruce and balsam fir trees. 
Hygrophorus lactus Johnson, Bull. Minn. Acad. Sci. 1: 336. 1878. Described from speci- 
mens collected among dead poplar leaves in Minnesota. The pileus is grayish-white covered 
with milk-white gluten. 
Hygrophorus limacinus (Scop.) Fries, Epicr. Myc. 324. 1838. (Agaricus limacinus 
Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2, 2: 422. 1772.) Reported once from New York by Peck, who may have 
confused it with H. hypothejus. . 
Hygrophorus livido-albus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 324. 1838. Reported by Peck as occurring 
rarely in New York. 
Hygrophorus penarius Fries, Epicr. Myc. 321. 1838. This beautiful white species was 
omitted by Peck in his later studies becatise he was doubtful about the determination of the 
specimens. It is possible that H. sordidus or its relatives may account for American material 
referred to this species. 
