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moist, wow-yellow to lemon-yellow, whitish when dry, pellueid- 

 striatulate and Bhining when moist, glabrous. GILLS arcuate, de- 

 current, distant, pale yellow, intervenose. STEW :: 7 cm. Long, 2 i 

 mm. thick', sleuth r, Fragile, hollow . equal or narrowed downwards, 

 sometimes fiexuous, viscid at first, wax-yellow, al length whitish. 

 SPORES elliptical, 6 7 \ 3 I micr. < >l>< >K and TASTE not marked. 



Gregarious or subcaespitose. <m the ground in Bwamps or low 

 woods in the conifer regions of the State. Marquette, Houghton, 

 Huron Mountains, New Richmond. July to September. Frequent 

 locally. 



A slender Hygrophorus whose cap and often also the stem, fade 

 considerably on drying. This characteristic distinguishes ii from 

 //. ceraceus. It has hitherto been round only in mixed woods of 

 hemlock, birch and maple or of maple and oak in tin- northern and 

 western parts of the state. The gills are nsually quite decurrent, 

 narrowed to ;i point on the stem, and their persistenl color contrasts 

 markedly with thai of tin- stem and pileus as the planl dries. There 

 is no universal viscous veil ;is in the planl of the same mime de- 

 scribed by Fries. The hitter plant is now called //. friesii Sacc. 



182. Hygrophorus laetus Fr. (Edible 



Syst. Myc, L821. 



Illustrations: Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. 8, Fig. 8. 

 Fries, I cones, PI. ir.7. Pig. 2. 

 Cooke, 111.. PI. 938. 

 Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 338. 



"PILEUS L.5-3 cm. broad, convex-plane, subobtuse, viscid when 

 moist, shining, tawny, mil fading, pellucid-stria te. FLESB con- 

 color or paler, tough, thin. <iILLS subdecurrent, broadly adnate, 

 subtriangular, distant, thin, yellow, greenish-yellow, grayish-yellow 

 or nt length pale orange. STEM slender. 3-5 cm. long, :'••'> mm. 

 thick, tough, glabrous, very viscid, equal, tawny, undulate-uneven. 

 SPORES elliptical, 6-7 x I micr. BASIDLA 30x5-6 micr. <>I>m|; 

 and TASTE not marked." 



Gregarious. In meadows, pastures, cedar swamps, etc. Lewis 

 ton. Houghton. July-August. I have given Ricken's description. 

 Doubtless it is often confused with //. peckii. The dry state of the 

 latter seems to imitate it. and differs only in its fragility, the vnl> 

 umbilicate ]>ileus. and gills which are at first whitish. 



