190 SECTION HYGROCYBE 



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Fig. 54. 



H. nitiosus 



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Hygrophorus nitiosus Blytt 



Norges Hymenomycetes. Videnskab Selskabets Skrifter. Math. Naturv. 



Kl. 1904. No. 6. 1905 



Hygrocybe ingrata Jensen & Moeller, Fungi of the Faeroes, p. 136. 



1945. 

 Hygrocybe nitiosa (Blytt) Moser apud Gams, Kleine Kryptogamenfl. 



von Mitteleuropa, p. 37. 1953. 



Illustration: 

 Fig. 54. 



Pileus 2-5 cm broad, convex-umbonate, expanding slightly, near 

 "snuff brown," moist, soon dry, radiately appressed-fibrillose, margin 

 even. Context dingy-grayish, at times pinkish when cut, relatively thin; 

 odor nitrous, taste acidulous. 



Lamellae deeply emarginate, whitish changing to pinkish, and at 

 times becoming blackish where bruised, broad, subdistant, edges 

 even. 



Stipe 4-8 cm long, 3-8 mm thick, pallid brownish, becoming pink- 

 ish brown where bruised, drying blackish, at times ventricose below, 

 often compressed, glabrous, striate, dry, hollow. 



