Lieucosporae 



white, sometimes reddish. Stem 2-3 in. long, about %. in. thick, Hygrophorus. 

 stuffed, soft, somewhat equal (sometimes, however, irregularly shaped 

 or thickened at the base), white, with minute light yellow squamules ^ 

 which are more crowded and arranged in the form of a ring toward the 

 apex. Gills decurrent, distant, 3 lines broad, thin, white, somewhat 

 yellowish at the edge, sometimes crisped. 



Odor not unpleasant. There is a manifest veil, not woven into a 

 continuous ring, but collected in the form of floccose squamules at the 

 apex of the stem and the margin of the pileus. Var. leucodon with 

 white squamules. Fries. 



In woods. 



The lamellae are said to be crisped, and when young, to have the 

 edge yellow-floccose ; but I have seen no such specimens. Peck, 23d 

 Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Spores 8x4/1 Cooke. 



West Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Mcllvaine. 



A pleasant, excellent species, whose rarity is regrettable. 



H. ebur'neus Bull. Fr. ebur, ivory. Wholly sh ining white. Pileus 

 fleshy, sometimes thin, sometimes somewhat compact, convexo-plane, 

 somewhat repand, even, very glutinous in rainy weather, margin soon 

 naked. Stem sometimes short, sometimes elongated, stuffed then 

 hollow, unequal, glutinous like the pileus, rough at the apex with dots 

 in the form of squamules. Grills decurrent, distant, veined at the base, 

 3-4 lines broad, tense and straight, quite entire. Fries. 



Odor mild, not unpleasant. Very changeable. The veil is absent, 

 unless the very plentiful gluten which envelops the stem be regarded 

 as a universal veil; margin of the young pileus involute, only at the first 

 pubescent, soon naked. The stem is soft internally, at length hollow, 

 attenuated toward the base. 



In woods and pastures. Frequent. September to October. Stevenson. 



The whole plant is pure white when fresh, but in drying the gills 

 assume a cinnamon-brown hue. Peck, Rep. 26. 



Spores 6x5/1 Cooke; 4x5/1 W.G.S.; 5-6/1 K.; 6x4/1 C.B.P. 



A common and wide-spread species frequenting woods and pastures. 



Edible. Curtis. 



The author ate it in West Virginia, in 1882; at Devon, Pa., 1887; 



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