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fibrillose on the margin, blackish brown, flesh white; lamellae nar- 

 row, sometimes forked, subdistant, adnate or slightly decurrent, 

 white; stem equal, sometimes pointed or abruptly narrowed at the 

 base, fibrillose striate, solid, whitish becoming tinged with the color 

 of the pileus, white within and white tomentose at the base ; spores 

 elliptic, .0003-.0004 of an inch long, .0002-.00024 broad. 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad; stem 1.5-3 inches long, 4-6 lines thick. 



Gregarious. Growing in mixed woods. West Fort Ann, Wash- 

 ington CO. October. S. H. Burnham. 



This species is a near ally of H. c a p r i n u s (Scop.) Fr. from 

 which it may be separated by its more glabrous pileus, more nar- 

 row and closer lamellae, which also are less decurrent. The stem 

 is paler than the pileus and generally slightly radicated at the base 

 and there covered with a white mycelioid tomentum. The lamellae 

 are about i line broad. 



Hygrophorus metapodius Fr. 



CHANGED STEM HYGROPHORUS 



Pileus compact, convex becoming nearly plane, often irregular, 

 soon silky and squamulose, brown or grayish brown, flesh thick; 

 lamellae thick, distant, adnate or somewhat decurrent, broadly 

 emarginate, grayish white; stem unequal, sometimes narrowed 

 toward the base, sometimes ventricose, stuffed, glabrous, cinereous, 

 reddish within; spores .0003 of an inch long, .0002 broad. 



Pileus 1.5-2 inches broad; stem 1-2 inches long, 3-5 lines thick. 



Woods or groves. Ulster county. September. Rare. This 

 species has been found but once. The specimens differ from the 

 typical form in the flesh not becoming red where wounded and no 

 odor was observed at the time of collection. 



Hygrophorus basidiosus*n. comb. 



GRAYISH BROWN HYGROPHORUS 



Clitocybe basidiosa Pk. State Mus. Bui. 2. 1887. p. 5. 



Pileus rather thin, convex becoming nearly plane or centrally 

 depressed, sometimes umbilicate, glabrous, hygrophanous, grayish 

 brown and striatulate on the margin when moist, grayish white 

 when dry, flesh whitish; lamellae subarcuate, thick, distant, adnate 

 or slightly decurrent, whitish with a violaceous tint; stem equal 

 or slightly thickened at the top, glabrous, firm, solid, whitish or 



