SI BSi ( 1 1<>\ HYGROCYBl 17', 





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Fig. 50. //. deceptwus 



text thick on the disc, thin on the margin, whitish to pallid or con- 

 colorons with the pilens; odor none or earthy, taste mild to acidulous. 



Lamellae broadly adnate. arcuate and becoming slightly decur- 

 rent, pale buff or concolorous with the pileus, broad and finally ventri- 

 cose, close to subdistant, lamellulae numerous, venose, edges even. 



Stipe (2)4-10 cm long, 3-10 mm thick, apex whitish, elsewhere 

 concolorous, apex canescent or pruinose, elsewhere glabrous, tapering 

 downward, dry, fragile, hollow. 



Spores 3-5 X 3-4 /*, ovoid, short-ellipsoid, subglobose, or globose, 

 smooth, white in deposit, yellowish brown in Melzers reagent. Basidia 

 26-34 x 3-5 fx, 2- and 4-spored. Pleurocvstidia and cheiloc) stidia aone. 

 Gill trama of elongated, subparallel cells, 4-7 ( 12) /x broad, yellowish in 

 Melzer's reagent. Cuticle of non-gelatinous hyphae which are fuscous, 

 repent, probably erect at first, septate, often constricted, the terminal 

 elements clavate-cystidioid. No hvpodermium differentiated. Pileus 

 trama homogeneous, interwoven, radially disposed. Clamp connections 

 none. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distribution — Gregarious on soil and 

 humus, in deciduous and mixed woods, Alabama. North Carolina, 

 South Carolina, and Tennessee; France; fune— August. 



Material Studied — Alabama: Burke 66. north < \koll\a: 



