134 SECTION HYGROCYBE 



Illustrations: 



Fig. 35; also 1c, Id. 



Coker, Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. Jour. 45, pi. 11. 



Smith and Hesler, Lloydia 5, pi. 8. 



Pileus 2-7 cm broad, sharply conic, expanding somewhat, smooth, 

 glutinous, pellicle separable, when dry merely viscid or shining, 

 "scarlet red" to "spectrum red," finally fading to "orange chrome" or 

 paler, margin often recurved, lobed or split, striatulate. Context 

 "primuline yellow" or paler, at times whitish, red under the cuticle, 

 unchanging, thin, fragile, waxy; odor and taste not distinctive. 



Lamellae free or just reaching the stipe, close to crowded, be- 

 coming subdistant, at first narrow, becoming rather broad, "ochraceous 

 orange," "orange," "pale orange yellow" to "primuline yellow," edges 

 usually eroded. 



Stipe 5-9(18) cm long, 5-10(12) mm thick, "pinard yellow" to 



Fig. 35. H. cuspidatus 



