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Hygrophorus luridus B. & C. 



LURID HYGROPHORUS 



Pileus thin, campanulate or convex becoming nearly plane, um- 

 bonate, very viscid, coarsely striate or sulcate striate on the margin, 

 brown or pale brown with a dark center; lamellae thick, distant, 

 ventricose, adnate or slightly decurrent, white ; stem slender, hollow, 

 viscid, colored like the pileus; spores .OG024-.0003 of an inch long, 

 .0002-.00024 broad. 



Pileus 6-12 lines broad; stem 1-2 inches long, 1-1.5 lines thick. 



Swamps and damp places. Rensselaer, Saratoga and Hamilton 

 counties. July and August. Not before reported from our State. 



The type specimens were collected in North Carolina but our 

 northern plant agrees very well with the description of the species 

 except in having no umbo. No spore characters are given in the 

 original description. The dimensions here given are derived from 

 the spores of the northern plant. 



Hygrophorus minutulus Pk. 



MINUTE HYGROPHORUS 

 State Mus. Bui. 2. 1887. p.p. 



Pileus very thin, submembranaceous, convex or expanded, subum- 

 bilicate, bright red or orange, viscid, distinctly striatulate when 

 moist, pale red or yellowish when dry ; lamellae rather broad, sub- 

 distant, sometimes ventricose, adnate or subsinuate and slightly de- 

 current, whitish tinged with red or yellow; stem short, slender, 

 fragile, solid, viscid when moist, yellowish ; spores narrowly elliptic, 

 .0004 of an inch long, .0002 broad, sterigmata .0002-.0003 of an 

 inch long. 



Pileus 3-5 lines broad ; stem 6-10 lines long, less than .5 of a 

 line thick. 



Grassy and mossy places in pastures. Rensselaer county. July. 

 Rare. Found but once. 



This is one of our smallest species. Its solid stem does not agree 

 well with the character of the subgenus in which we have placed it, 

 but its bright color indicates its relationship to the species of this 

 subgenus. 



