142 SECTION HYGROCYBE 



Fig. 38. H. purpureofolius 



glabrous, moist and hygrophanous, not viscid, dark reddish orange 

 when young ("vinaceous rufous," "Hay's russet," "Kaiser brown," "Mars 

 orange"), becoming paler and more orange-like when expanded 

 ("burnt sienna," dull "Mars orange," "orange rufous"), usually fading 

 from the disc outward, fading slowly and appearing radiate-streaked or 

 squamulose, becoming a rather bright yellowish orange ("deep 

 chrome"). Context thin, brittle, concolorous with pileus when moist, 

 fading to whitish or a pale yellowish, odor and taste not distinctive. 



Lamellae broadly adnate to short decurrent, close to subdistant, 

 broad (2-6 mm) waxy-appearing, rather brittle, dull lavender to 

 purple ("pale purple drab," "pale vinaceous drab," at times nearly 

 "deep dull lavender"), yellowish in age, edges even. 



Stipe 2.5-7 cm long, 4-9 mm thick at apex, equal or either end 

 enlarged, sometimes ventricose, often compressed with a vertical 

 groove, usually curved or flexuous, hollow (yellowish in interior of 

 cortex), fibrous-brittle and splitting longitudinally, surface glabrous, 



