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Lamellae adnexed, whitish then cremeous, broad, crowded. 



Stipe 5-6 cm long, 4-6 mm thick, cream or pale yellow, glabrous, 

 shining, somewhat flattened, equal, hollow. 



Spores 6-8(9) X 6-7.5 /x, globose to subglobose, smooth, pale yel- 

 lowish in Melzer's reagent. Basidia 38-50 X 6-9 /x, mostly 2-spored, 

 some 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia none. Gill trama sub- 

 parallel. Cuticle of repent, more rarely erect, irregularly-shaped, many 

 more or less nodulose, broad (6-12 fx) hyphae. No differentiated hypo- 

 dermium. Pileus trama of radial hyphae. Clamp connections none. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distbibution — On soil, in a pasture, Cuba 

 and Antigua (Lesser Antilles), June-October. 



Matebial Studied — cuba: Earle 562 (type, from Herradura, 

 June 16, 1907). 



Obsebvations — Hijgrophoras earlei is related to H. sphaerosporus, 

 but the types do not closely resemble each other. The latter is dark 

 brown and its spores tend toward flat-sidedness; the former is red- 

 dish brown and its spore are slightly larger and show no tendency to- 

 ward flat sides. 



Dennis (1953) reports this species from Antigua. He found the 

 pileus to be lemon to zinc orange, pellucid-striate in age; the flesh 

 hygrophanous; the lamellae white at first then warm buff; the stipe- 

 base white; the spores 7-8(11) X 5.5-7 p; the basidia 4-spored; and 

 cystidia none. Dennis ( 1953 ) also reports H. earlei from Trinidad, but 

 we have studied his collections and conclude that his Nos. 50 and 161 

 from there might better be referred to H. subfiavidus, because of spore 

 size. 



The description of the microscopic characters given above is based 

 on our study of the type. 



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Hygrophorus deceptivus Sm. & Hes. 



Lloydia 5: 45. 1942 



Armillariella deceptiva (Sm. & Hes.) Singer, Lilloa 22: 216. 1951. 



Illustrations: 

 Fig. 50. 

 Smith and Hesler, Lloydia 5, pi. 2a. 



Pileus 10-40 mm broad, convex, becoming expanded and the mar- 

 gin slightly upturned and splitting, hygrophanous, "tawny-olive," "clay 

 color," "ochraceous tawny," "cinnamon brown," to "fuscous" (when 

 wet), disc usually darker, "pinkish buff" when faded, canescent to 

 minutely fibrillose, margin thin, striate when wet, even when dry. Con- 



