CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 1^59 



*PUeus innately hairy, fibrillosescaly or velvety. 



247. Hypholoma lachrymabundum ( Fr.) Quel. (Edible 



Syst. Myc, 1821 (Pro parte); Jura et. Vosges, L872. 

 (See .Maire. Soc. .Myc de Prance, Bull. 27, p. m. L911). 



Illustrations: Pries, [cones, PI. 134, Pig. 1. 



Cooke, III.. PI. 543 <as //. storea var. caespitosa). 



Quelet, Bull. Soc. Bot. Prance, Vol. 23, PI. 2, Pig •"» (as Btro- 



/>/iu rin cotonea t . 

 Plate LI l of this Report. 



PILEUS HO cm. broad, convex then campanulate, obtuse or dis- 

 coid, ground-color whitish to buff, then pale brownish-ochraceous, 

 moist, covered except on disk by scattered, rather large appressed 

 brownish hairy scales, paler on margin, no1 striate margin at first 

 incurved and appendiculate from the thickish, floccose-white veil, 

 sometimes rugulose on disk. FLESH thick, thin on margin, firm, 

 white. GILLS adnate-seceding, narrow, crowded, at firsl whitish, 

 at Length purplish-brown, edge white-flocculose, sometimes distilling 

 bead-like drops. STEM till' cm. long, 5-10 mm. thick, equal, hollow. 

 striate above, fibrillose or subscaly below, glabrescent, whitish then 



sordid, base sometimes stained yellowish when bruised, white- 

 mycelioid at base. SPORES 6-7.5x3-4 micr., elliptical, slightly 

 curved, smooth, dark brownish-purple under microscope. CVS 

 TIDIA on sides and edge of ^ills short, rather abundant. 

 3040 x 12-15 micr., ventricose. 



Densely caespitose at or about the base of trees, in beech, maple 

 and birch woods of conifer regions. Bay View, Eoughton. August 

 September. Rather rare. 



This differs from //. velutina (which is the //. lachrymabundum 

 of most bonks i in the whitish color, paler .u'ills at first, the small 



spores and different cystidia. According to Maire (1. c.) the two 



s| ecies were originally combined by Fries, and later segregated by 



Quelet. It has been described under various names and much con- 

 fusion has resulted. The unravelling of the tangle is due to Prof. 

 Maire, with the result that the species ordinarily called //. lachry- 

 mabundum in this country is really //. n hitinu. //. aggregatum Pk. 

 is in my opinion only a smaller form nf the same plant. The gills 

 of this species are rarely found "weeping," although in //. nJutinn 

 they are usually •'beaded with drops." 



