SI BSECTION PSITTACINI 233 



Illustrations: 

 Fig. 68. 

 Smith and Hosier, 1 Jo\ dia 5, pi. L6b. L942. 



Pileus 1-1 cm broad, when young broadly convex or flattened and 

 with an incurved margin, disc very soon becoming depressed, in age 

 deeply mfundibuliform, the margin cither spreading or remaining 



declined, "primulinc yellow to "apricot yellow." OVd all at first. 



Fading to whitish or pale cream color, glabrous, viscid, striatulate when 



moist. Context soft, fragile, very thin, yellowish, lading to white; odor 

 and taste not distinctive. 



Lamellae- arcuate at first, soon long-decurrent. pale yellow, edges 

 often deeper yellow, subdistant to distant, narrow, moderately broad 

 in age, interveno.se. very fragile and easily broken, edges even. 



Stipe 3-8 cm long, 2-5 mm thick, concolorous with the pileus at 

 first, fading to whitish, fragile, equal or slightly enlarged above, 

 flexnous at times, surface viscid and glabrous, glistening when dry, 

 hollow . 



Spores 6.5-8(9) X (3.5)4-5(6) t i, ellipsoid to subovoid, smooth 

 very pale yellow in Melzer's reagent. Basidia 34-45 X 5-7 /x, 4-spored. 

 Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia not differentiated. Gill trama of 

 snbparallel to slightly interwoven hyphae of very large cells (40-135 X 

 10-32 fx). Cuticle (an ixocutis) a zone of gelatinous, repent hyphae. No 

 hypodermium differentiated. Pileus trama of radial hyphae. Clamp 

 connections present on the hyphae of the cuticle and pileus trama. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distribution — Gregarious to scattered on 

 humus, on wet soil, and in bogs; Nova Scotia and Ontario in Canada, 

 and Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, 

 Michigan, Washington, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, 

 Alabama, Tennessee, July-October. 



Material Studied — Alabama: Burke 81. maine: Bigelow 3408, 

 3490, 3782; Rea 470, 537, 642. Massachusetts: Bigelow 7671, 8289, 

 8303, 9131. Michigan: Bigelow, Emmet Co., 1955; Kauffman 328, Bay 

 View, Aug. 24, 1905; Mains 32-107, 32111; Potter 3909; Povah P306; 

 Smith 1259, 7030, 9621, 18404, 18764, 21856, 32575, 33586, 37074, 

 37791, 49997, 50100; Thiers 3268, 3343, 3438, 3635, 3897, 4017, 4042, 

 4204, 4291. new jersey: Ellis & Everhart, N. A. Fungi 22. new YORK: 

 Ellis, Aug. 17, 1882. north Carolina: Coker 5624; Hesler 12190, 

 13951, 14260, 16324; Sharp & Hesler 9312, 12745; Smith 10148. 

 Pennsylvania: Kauffman, Mt. Gretna, Sept. 4, 1924. Tennessee: Smith 

 9832, 10864. Washington: Kauffman, Cascade Mts., Sept. 18, 1915. 

 Canada: Bigelow 5664, 5882; (Ontario) Cain, Sept. 3, 1936; Kellv 884, 

 1180, 1231; Krieger 1709; Smith 632. 



