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Hygrophorus miniatus I. longipes Sm. & \\< s 



Sydowia 8: 321. L954 



Illustration: 

 Fig. H. 



Pileus 1—3 cm broad, com ex becoming pi. me or slightl) depressed, 

 often remaining convex, color "English rod" to "flame scarlet' 

 gradually lading out to pale-yellow margin, surface glabrous and 



moist, only in age slightly squamulose, surface shining hut not \iscid. 

 when faded becoming unpolished to faintly rurfuraceous, distinctl) 



translucent striate when moist (often conspicuously so). Context 

 orange to yellowish; odor and taste none. 



Fig. 44. 



H. miniatus f. longipes 



Lamellae broadly adnate, orange-yellow to pale yellow, close. 

 broad, edges even and pallid. 



Stipe 3-8 cm long, 2-4 mm thick, concolorous with pileus and 

 changing color with it, usually paler below, equal, hollow, fragile 1 . 

 transversely undulating. 



Spores 7-8 x 4.5-5 /x, ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, yellowish in Mel- 

 zer's solution. Basidia 48-60 X 7-8 /x, 4-spored. Pleurocvstidia and chei- 

 locystidia none. Gill trama parallel. Pileus trama floccose-interwoven. 



