SJ ( //( >\ HYGROTR \M \ 97 



large intermediate group, the Hispidodermi is more or less trichodei- 

 mial, depending on which of the numerous species one examines. 



ICE! in Nil < n s 



1. Odor strong, pungent or disagreeable 2 



1. Odor not distinctive 3 



2. Pilous cinnamon brown to bistre 39. //. forfeits 



2. Pilens Isabella color (dingy ochraceous) becoming olive-bufl and then 



gray 11.//. subfuscescens var. odora 



3. Pileus pale to dark ding) yellow, cinerescenl 



40. //. subfuscescens var. subfuscescens 



3. Pileus color and changes not as above 4 



4. Stipe with black punctate squamules over upper surface 



42. //. atropunctus 



4. Stipe not as above 5 



5. Pileus buffv brown, then olive-buff, hvgrophanous and lading to whitish. 



rugulose 43. //. rugulosus 



5. Not as above 6 



6. Spores 5-7 X 3.5-5 fx 44. //. dennisianus 



6. Spores globose to subglobo.se 7 



7. Pileus pinkish cinnamon to clay color, becoming gray to blackish; stipe 



blackish in age 45. //. hymenocephalus 



7. Pileus and stipe not as above 8 



8. Pileus vellowish cinnamon becoming chocolate gray; stipe not darken- 

 ing 46. H. schulzeri 



8. Pileus dark olive brown fading to cinereous 47. H. rugulosoides 



39 



Hygrophorus foetens Phillips apud Berk. & Br. 



Grevillea 7: 74. 1878-79 



Camarophyllus foetens (Phillips) J. Lange, Dansk Bot. Ark. 4: 18. 1923. 

 Hodophilus foetens (Phillips) Heim, Les Champ. d'Eur. p. 219. 1957. 



Illustrations: 

 Fig. 10c. 



Lange, Flora Agar. Dan., pi. 166H. 

 Phillips, Grevillea 7, t. 121, f. 13. 

 Bresadola, Icon. Myc, tab. 321. (1). 

 Favre and Poluzzi, Vita Helvetica, Taf. VII B. 



Pileus 1-4 cm broad, plane to broadly convex, becoming turbinate 1 

 or the margin uplifted, moist, hvgrophanous, "cinnamon brown" to 

 "bister" on disc and over striae, paler between the striae, fading to 

 near avellaneous and then atomate, surface glabrous, in age at times 

 somewhat diffracted scaly. Context concolorous with surface, brittle- 

 waxy; taste mild, odor pungent (reminding one of chloride of lime). 



Lamellae decurrent, "wood brown" or darker, thick, distant, me- 

 dium broad, waxy, brittle, edges even. 



