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of gluten, which makes it very slippery in handling. The odor is 

 mild and not unpleasant like that of a closely related species, H. 

 cossus. The plants are 6-15 cm. high, the cap is from 3-8 cm. broad, 



and the stem 3-8 

 mm. in thickness. It 

 grows on the ground 

 in woods, or in open 

 grassy places. 



The pileus is 

 fleshy, moderately 

 thick, sometimes 

 thin, convex to ex- 

 panded, the margin 

 uneven or sometimes 

 wavy, smooth, and 

 shining. When 

 young the margin of 

 the cap is incurved. 

 The gills are strongly 

 decurrent, distant, 

 with vein-like eleva- 

 tions near the stem. 

 Spores rather long, 

 oval, 6-10 X 5-6 yu, 

 granular. The stem 

 varies in length, it is 

 spongy to stuffed 

 within, sometimes 

 hollow and tapers 

 below. The slime 

 which envelops the 

 plant is sometimes so 

 abundant as to form 

 a veil covering the 

 entire plant and ex- 

 o tending across from 

 ^ the margin of the cap 

 to the stem, covering 

 the gills. As the plant dries this disappears, and does not leave an 

 annulus on the stem. 



Figure 116 is from a photograph of plants (No. 2534, C. U. her- 

 barium) collected in Enfield Gorge near Ithaca, N.Y., Nov. 5th, 1898. 



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