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Habit, Habitat, \nb Distrtbj noN — On soil, in mixed woods, 

 North Carolina, November. 



Material Studied — north < uiolina: Coker 3745 (type, from 

 mixed woods. Chapel Hill, collected 1>\ II. H. Totten, \«.\ L3, 1919 . 



Observations — The description <>! microscopic characters given 

 above is based on our study of the type. The macroscopic characters 

 are taken from the account by Coker (1948). \ more detailed stud) of 

 this form from fresh material is needed as the chemical reactions in 

 addition to the color change already noted mighl be sufficient to estab- 

 lish it as a species. The color here is certainly not caused b\ the- action 

 of a pathogen. 



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Hygrophorus cremicolor (Mnrr.) Mnrr. 



Nlyeologia 4: 217. 1912 



Hydrocybe cremicolor Mutt., Mycologia4: 209. 1912. 

 Camarophyllus cremicolor Mnrr., North Amer. Flora 9: 389. L916. 



Illustration: 

 Fig. 8a. 



Pileus 1-3 cm broad, obtuse with an incurved cottony margin, ex- 

 panding to broadly umbonate with a spreading margin, white to 

 creamv ochraceous or with a salmon tint, unpolished and whitish 

 faded, surface canescent, pallid but moist and hygrophanous. Context 

 cream color to near pale pinkish buff; odor none (or faintly fragrant in 

 Smith 54279), taste not distinctive. 



Lamellae "maize vellow" or paler yellow, distant, narrow, decur- 

 rent, edges even. 



Stipe 5-7 cm long, 8-12 mm thick at apex, narrow ed downward or 

 nearly equal, more or less concolorous with pileus or basal portion 

 paler (pale yellow below in one immature carpophore), surface' 

 glabrous and naked, no pruinositv above and no veil seen. 



Spores 5-7 x 3.5-4.5 /*, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, smooth, 

 hyaline in Melzer's solution. Basidia 40-50 x .5-6 /*, 4-spored. Pleura- 

 cystidia not seen. Gill trama of interwoven narrow hyphae, 1.5-3 /< 

 broad. Cuticle a trichodermium, hyphae 2-5 fx broad, more or less erect 

 to loosely tangled, some with cvstidioid terminal elements, non- 

 gelatinous. Hvpodermium not differentiated. Pileus trama chiefly of 

 radial, subparallel hyphae, a few periclinallv disposed. Clamp connec- 

 tions present. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distbibution — On the ground in woods and 

 in a dried-up pool, Massachusetts, Michigan, Idaho, and Washington, 

 July-November. 



