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equal, solid, viscid or glutinous, white or whitish; spores elliptic, 

 .0003-00035 of an inch long, .0002 broad. 



Pileus 1-4 inches broad ; stem 2-4 inches long, 4-8 lines thick. 



Pine woods. Albany county. October and November. Edible. 

 Often growing in company with H. flavodiscus and equally 

 esteemed as an edible mushroom. Both occur late in the season. 

 The stem is sometimes brownish at the base. 



Hygrophorus limacinus (Scop.) Fr, 

 SLIMY HYGROPHORUS 



Pileus fleshy, convex becoming nearly plane, glabrous, viscid, 

 brownish or smoky brown in the center, paler on the margin; 

 lamellae rather thin, subdistant, adnate or decurrent, grayish white ; 

 stem equal, firm, solid, viscid, fibrillose striate, squamulose at the 

 top, colored like the pileus toward the base, paler above; spores 

 .0005 of an inch long, .0003 broad. 



Pileus 1.5-2.5 inches broad; stem 1-2 inches long, 4-6 lines 

 thick. 



Grassy places. Rensselaer county. September. Rare. Found 

 but once. 



Hygrophorus fuscoalbus (Lasch.) Fr. 

 GRAYISH BROWN HYGROPHORUS 



Pileus convex becoming plane, even, glabrous, viscose, brownish 

 becoming cinereous, paler on the margin ; lamellae rather thick, 

 broad, subdistant, adnate or decurrent, white ; stem equal, solid, dry, 

 white floccose at the top, whitish or brownish ; spores .0003-0004 

 of an inch long, .0002-.00024 broad. 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad; stem 2-3 inches long, 1.5-3 lines thick. 



Woods. Essex county. September. Rare. The typical form of 

 this species is said to have a subannular floccose veil, a character 

 which is not shown by our specimens. European authors do not 

 agree in the dimensions ascribed to the spores of this species. In 

 our specimens the dimensions of the spores agree with those given 

 in Sylloge. 



Hygrophorus hypothejus Fr. 

 SULFUR TINTED HYGROPHORUS 



Pileus fleshy but thin, convex becoming plane or centrally de- 

 pressed, even, virgate, glutinous, variable in color, grayish olive, 

 yellowish olive or brownish, paler after the gluten disappears, flesh 



