SUBSECTION HYGROCYBE 195 



somewhat flattened, gray-brown to brownish-fuliginous, paler and 

 more grayish when laded, at times "clay color on the disc to "pinkish 

 hull on the margin, darkening in age, moist but soon drj and not 



viscid, silkv when laded, riinose in age, at times disc cracked to form 

 scales, margin even. Context thick on disc, thin tow aid. margin brittle, 

 pallid, pinkish when bruised; odor hunt, at times Fruity, taste slightl) 

 alkaline. 



Lamellae adnate, soon deeply emarginate, whitish, pinkish when 

 bruised, Anally spotted blackish, usually blackening when (hied, broad. 

 moderately close to subdistant. 



Stipe 4-7 cm long, 5-10 mm thick, equal, the apex at times flared, 

 terete or compressed, pallid or concolorous with the pileus, pinkish 

 brown to vinaceous when handled, finally blackish, often curved, bol- 

 iow. 



Spores (6)7-9(10) X 4.5-6(7) ^, ellipsoid to subovoid, smooth. 

 white in mass, yellowish in Melzer's reagent. Basidia 4-spored, 38-57 X 

 6-8(10) fx. Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia none. Gill trama parallel 

 to subparallel, hyphae 6-20 /x broad, pale sordid vinaceous brown in 

 Melzer's reagent. Cuticle of repent to semi-erect, non-gelatinous. 

 brownish hyphae which are radially disposed, the cells 40-125 X 8-20 

 /x, only slightly or not at all constricted at the septa. No hypodermium 

 differentiated. Pileus trama hyphae radial, similar to those of the sur- 

 face. Clamp connections rare on the cuticular hyphae. 



Fig. 56. H. ovinus 



