148 SECTION HYGROCYBE 



11-17.5 x 7-10 ft, ellipsoideae; pleurocystidia 32-57 X 8-14 /><., cheilo- 

 cystidia 34-50 X 7-11 /a. Specimen typicum in Herb. Univ. Tenn.; 

 ledum July 28, 1958, in Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mts. National 

 Park, Tenn., L. R. Hesler 22967. 



Pileus (1)2-7 cm broad, convex, depressed, margin finally up- 

 turned and then deeply depressed, "Nopal red," to "Pompeian red," 

 fading, disc densely orange-yellowish fibrillose to fibrillose-squamulose, 

 elsewhere glabrous, not viscid, at times rimose, margin even, at times 

 subplicate. Context yellowish, tinged orange, reddish next to cuticle, 

 medium thick on disc, thin on margin; odor and taste mild. 



Lamellae at first adnate-decurrent, becoming decurrent, whitish 

 then "pale orange yellow," distant to subdistant, medium-broad, edges 

 even and at times sulfur yellow. 



Stipe 3-7 cm long, 4-12 mm thick, "Nopal red" above, paler below, 



Fig. 41. H. appalachianensis 



