SI BS1 CTlOh PS/2 / iCINl 2/7 



in //. laetus, so slimy thai it is difficult to hold. The disjunctive distribu- 

 tion of this species, so far as now known, is interesting and peculiar. 



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Hygrophorti8 ringeri var. albifolius, var, n<>\ . 



Pileus 2-5 cm lotus, conicus, deinde conico-utnbonatus, glutinosus, 



Ochraceo-ltlteUS, se obscurans deinde lircscens, nigreSCetlS siccus: 



lamellae albae, suh-caenileac denique nigrae siccae, angustae; stipes 

 10-12 cm longus, 4rS mm crassus, glutinosus, omnino flavus oel 

 apice luteus, sub-viridis deinde nigrescens siccus; sporae 9-13 x 



6-7.5 /x, ellipsoideae demum oblongae. Specimen typicum in Herb. 

 Univ. Midi.; ledum Willamette, Ore., New. 16, 1947, Frank P. Sipe 



1057. 



Pileus 2-5 cm broad at base, conic, conic-umbonate when ex- 

 panded, glutinous, ochraceous orange beneath the gluten, becoming 

 darker and then greenish, blackening in drying. 



Lamellae white, bluish and finally black when dried, narrow 

 ascending. 



Stipe 10-12 cm long, 4-6 mm thick, equal, glutinous, yellow over all 

 or orange at apex, smooth, greenish, and then blackening when bruised. 



Spores 9-13 X 6-7.5 /*, elliptic to oblong, hyaline in KOH or 

 content pale bister (from darkening process), yellowish hyaline in 

 Melzer's solution. Basidia 2-spored, 38-50 X 9-14 /*, content often 

 bister in KOH. Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia none seen. Epicutis of 

 gelatinous narrow 7 interwoven hyphae. Clamp connections absent. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distbibutiox — Oregon, under fir, Willam- 

 ette area, Nov. 16, 1947. Frank P. Sipe 1057. 



Obsebvations — The specimens had been pressed, which very 

 likely accounts for their completely blackened condition. There are no 

 clamps at the base of the basidium or on the cuticular hyphae. The 

 floccose tissue of the cap revived poorly, and the apparent absence of 

 clamps could be a failure to find them due to the condition of the 

 material. 



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Hygrophorus ruber Pk. 



N. Y. State Museum Bull. 116: 32. 1907 



Hydrocybe ruber (Pk.) Murr., North Amor. Flora 9: 379. 1916. 



Pileus 1.5-5 cm broad, thin, conic, usually not expanded, acute or 



subobtuse, cuspidate or narrowly umbonate, bright red, not turning 

 black in drving, viscid or glutinous. 



