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Lamellae long-decurrent, white, rather narrow, distant to subdis 

 tant, inserted intervenose, edges even, 



Stipe 4-6 cm long, 1-7 nun thick, white, shining, glabrous, equal or 

 slightly enlarged upward, becoming sointwli.it hollow. 



Spores (5)6-7(9) x 4.5-5.5 /*. ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth, non- 

 amyloid. Basidia 36-54 x 6-8.5 p, 2- and L-spored. Pleurocystidia and 

 cheilocystidia none. Gill trama of interwoven hyphae. Cuticle ol non 

 gelatinous, repent hyphae which are radialh arranged, 2-3 ,<« broad, 

 brownish, with more or less civet free ends Forming a type of trich- 

 odermium. No hypodermium differentiated. Pileus trama oi radial 

 hyphae, with scattered lactifers. Clamp connections present on the 

 cntienlar hyphae. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distribution — In leal mold in a climax ham 

 mock, Florida, January. 



Material Studied — Florida: Murrill & Watson F20129 (type, 

 southwest of Gainesville, Jan. 21, 1940). 



Observations — In the dried condition the carpophores somewhat 

 resemble H. virgineus. Murrill says that when Fresh it suggests H. 

 fulvosus (H. pratensis) but has a more slender stipe. It also has a 

 fragrant odor. 



The description of microscopic characters given above is based on 

 our study of MurrilTs type. 



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Hygrophorus recurvatus Pk. 



N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 157: 28. 1912. 



CamarophyUus recurvatus (Pk.) Murr., North Amer. Mora 9: 388. 



1916. 

 Clitocybe praticola Murr., Lloydia5: 136. 1942. 

 Omphalina australis Murr., Florida Acad. Sci. Proc. 7: 111. L945. 



Illustrations: 

 Fig. 21. 

 Smith, Torrey Bot. Club Bull. 64, pi. lie. 



Pileus 1-2.5(3) cm broad, obtuse to convex at first, in age plane, 

 sometimes with a recurved margin, sometimes with a depressed disc. 

 with or without a papilla, "clove brown," "olive brown." or "bulb 

 brown" (dark or pale olive brown), margin paler in age. lubricous to 

 subviscid when wet, disc rugulose or smooth, at times the margin 

 faintly translucent-striate, margin wavy or subplicate. cuticle often 

 cracking circumferentiallv in age and at times lacerate. Context thin, 

 dark olive brown, fragile; odor and taste not distinctive. 



Lamellae decurrent, grayish white, distant to subdistant. broad. 



