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nous-fulvous to gilrous, pruinose, trama divergent. STEM 3-8 cm. 

 broad, Bubequal or tapering downward, attenuated at base, often 

 curved, rigid, 8 16 nun. thick above, at first wiili an appressed, 

 glancous silkiness, glabrescent, innately fibrous and Bhining, solid } 



ru it scent wiiliin and without. SPORES narrowly elliptic-lam 

 late to ovate, smooth, 7-9 s I micr., white. BASIDIA verj Blender, 

 aboul 'in \ l mill'. < »l >< >lv i •. TASTE mild. 



Scattered or gregarious. On the ground among fallen leaves in 

 frondose \\ Is. October. Ann Arbor. Rare. 



I have referred this large, well marked plant to Hi" above species 

 on the strength <>f Cooke's figure, but with Bome hesitancy. It 

 agrees well with thai illustration. //. /' /mi-inns is usually placed 

 under the subgenus Camarophyllus, bul the divergent gill trama of 

 our plant indicates plainly its position in my grouping. The spore- 

 measurements do not agree with those given by others. M 

 Bays they arc subglobose, 5-6 micr.; Ricken describes them ;is 

 cylindric elliptical, like ours, bul smaller, 5 t'» \ l micr., which appi 

 imates somewhat closely. Berkeley says spines of //. leporinus 

 are umber-colored; this is manifestly an error. The rather rigid 

 hahit and color suggesl a large and deeply colored Clitocybe lac- 

 cata, l>ut otherwise they have nothing in common. The whole 

 plant is more or less salmon-rufescenl in color. The trama of the 

 gills is composed of slender, diverging, compact hyphae, 5-7 micr. 

 in diameter. The trama of the pileus is also pseudo-prosenchymal 



mis. i. e.. of narrow, compact hyphae. The species is variable in size 



and stout even when young. It is not found till late fall. It may 

 turn out to be distinct. 



si BGENl 8 C IMAROPHYLLl 8. Veil none Trama of gills 

 of interwoven hyphae. Pileus and stein usually >}v\. Stem gla 

 brous or fibrillose, nol scabrous punctate at the apex. 



Although this subgenus was separated by Fries from the sub 

 genus Hygrocybe <>n account of its "firm, non-viscid" pileus, he 

 nevertheless, placed under it a number of thin, \ischl species like 

 //. fornicatus, II. niveus, etc. In view of the fact that such typical 

 species of this group as //. pratensis and If. virgineus have a L r iil 

 trama of interwoven hyphae, and typical species of the subgenus 

 Bygrocybe have a gill-trama of parallel hyphae, it seems that we 

 have here a fundamental ami natural separation of the two groups, 

 as was insisted on by Fayod (Ann. d. Sci. Nat., 7 Ser., Vol. '••. p. 

 305). Thus, despite the statement of Peck and Earle, the dry char- 

 acter of the pileUS cannot be retained to characterize I his snbgenUS. 



