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of gluten, which makes it very slippery in handling. The odor is 

 mild and not unpleasant like that of a closely related species, H. 

 cossits. The plants are 6-1 5 cm. high, the cap is from 3-8 cm. broad, 



and the stem 3-8 



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mm. in thickness. It 

 grows on the ground 

 in woods, or in open 

 grassy places. 



The pileus is 

 fleshy, moderately 

 thick, sometimes 

 thin, convex to ex- 

 panded, the margin 

 uneven or sometimes 

 wavy, smooth, and 

 shining. When 

 young the margin of 

 the cap is incurved. 

 The gills are strongly 

 decurrent, distant, 

 with vein-like eleva- 

 tions near the stem. 

 Spores rather long, 

 oval, 6-10 x 5-6 //, 

 granular. The stem 

 varies in length, it is 

 spongy to stuffed 

 within, sometimes 

 hollow and tapers 

 below. The slime 

 which envelops the 

 plant is sometimes so 

 abundant as to form 

 a veil covering the 

 entire plant and ex- 

 tending across from 

 the margin of the cap 

 to the stem, covering 



the gills. As the plant dries this disappears, and does not leave an 

 annulus on the stem. 



Figure 116 is from a photograph of plants (No. 2534, C. U. her- 

 barium) collected in Enfield Gorge near Ithaca, N.Y., Nov. 5th, 1898. 



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