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Hygrophorus perplexus Sm. & Hes. 



Sydowia 8: 328. L954 



Illustration: 

 Fig. 83. 



Pileus L-3 cm broad, obtusel) conic with the margin curved in 

 against the gills at first, expanding to broadl) campanulate or plane 

 with an obtuse umbo, ■Trout's brown" to near "Rood's brown" and 

 slowly developing an olivaceous to orange tinge on margin and also 

 becoming translucent-striate, gradually changing to pale orange-tan or 



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Fig. 63. f 



II. perplexus 





pinkish tan. hygrophanous and fading to buff-pink ("light ochraceous 



salmon" to "light ochraceous buff"), very slimy-viscid. Context very 

 thin and fragile, concolorous with cap and fading like it; odor and 

 taste none. 



Lamellae ascending and adnate with a tooth or when full, ex- 

 panded depressed-adnate (never decurrent), "amber yellow" young, 

 finally "apricot yellow," broad, close to subdistant, edges even. 



Stipe 3-5 cm long, 2-5 mm thick at apex, slightly thicker below or 

 equal, slimy-viscid over all. "ochraceous buff" at base, pallid watery- 

 grayish above, finally yellow over all (never seen to have olive tints). 



Spores 6-8 x 4-5 /x, ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth, hyaline in KOH, 

 vellowish in Melzer's reagent. Basidia 36-44 x 7-9 «. 4-spored. Pleuro- 

 cvstidia and cheiloevstidia none seen. Gill trama subparallel to ver) 

 slightly interwoven, hyphae 6-12 n broad, subhymenium not distinc- 

 tive. Pileus trama homogeneous beneath a gelatinous cuticle (an 

 ixotrichodermium) of narrow, branched hyphae arranged in a tint 75 

 to 100 /x high, composed of slender hyphae ( 1.5-2. 5[6] /■■ broad). No 

 hypodermium differentiated. Pileus trama of interwoven, radially dis- 



