184 SECTION HYGROCYBE 



Fig. 52. H. coccineus 



orange-red to yellowish orange, pallid yellowish when dried, close to 

 subdistant, broad, thickish, intervenose, edges even. 



Stipe 3-7 cm long X 3-8 mm thick, concolorous with the pileus 

 above or throughout, soon becoming yellowish near the base which 

 sometimes is whitish from a coating of mycelium, glabrous, glistening, 

 uneven, equal, fragile, moist, not viscid, hollow. 



Spores 7-10.5 X 4-5 ^, ellipsoid, smooth, white in mass, yellow in 

 Melzer's reagent. Basidia 43-54 X 6-8 /*, 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and 

 cheilocystidia not differentiated. Gill trama subparallel, hyphae 

 (5)8-16 fx broad, yellowish in iodine. Cuticle of repent hyphae, or at 

 times a few more or less erect (a cutis). No hypodermium differen- 

 tiated. Pileus trama of radial, parallel to subparallel hyphae. Clamp 

 connections on the hyphae of the cuticle, gill trama, and subhymenium. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distbibution — Gregarious on soil in decidu- 

 ous, coniferous, and mixed woods, California, Oregon, Washington, 

 Michigan, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Pennsylvania, 



