Si BSECTlOh PSI1 l \( INI 211 



Sept. 1, 1914; Smith L064; Snell SITS, north i \boi \\ \: Sharp & I [eslei 

 9318. Oregon: Wehmeyer, Mt. Hood, Oct. LO, 1 c Ji2i2. Pennsylvania: 

 Kauffman, Mt. Gretna, Sept. 1 and 10. L926. rENNESSEE: Heslei 9512 

 10929; Smith & Hesler 7408, 7406, L0080, L0155, L0734. w uhincton: 

 Smith 3197. Canada: Hoare 21895; Smith 678, 1011, U24; (Queb 

 Bigelow 5736, 5814. 



Observations — The viscid pellicle is ver) difficult to demonstrate 



in dried material because of its poor Organization. The same is true lor 



the gelatinous layer over the stipe. In studying only dried material 



would very likely conclude that neither the pileus nor the stipe was 

 viscid. The less depressed pileus. the more adnate gills, and the failure 

 of the pileus to fade to white distinguish //. ceraceus from //. nil id u\. 

 Murrill's Hygrocyhe nitida var. lutea is the same as //. ceraa us. 



143 



Hvgrophorus reai Maire 



Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soe. 3 (3): 170. 1910 



Hygrocybe reai (Maire) J. Lange, Studies in Agarics of Denmark. 

 V. Dansk Bot. Arkiv. 4: 25. 1923. 



Illustrations: 

 Fig. 70. 



Lange, Flora Agar. Dan. 5, pi. 168A (as Hygrocybe). 

 Wakefield and Dennis, Common British Fungi, pi. 36. fig. 3. 

 Wakefield and Dennis, Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soe. 3, tab. 11. 



Pileus 1-3 cm broad, convex when young, becoming broadly con- 

 vex in age, "grenadine red" to "flame scarlet" (brilliant red) on the 

 disc, "deep chrome" (brilliant orange) toward the margin, in age fad- 

 ing to "deep chrome" oyer all, glabrous, viscid, faintly translucent 

 striate toward the minutely crenate margin. Context concolorous with 

 the surface and fading with it, brittle, thin ( 1.5-2.5 mm near the stipe); 

 odor none, taste very bitter. 



Lamellae bluntly adnate and soon seceding, "light bufF' when 

 young, becoming "straw yellow" ( whitish and becoming pale yellow ) . 

 subdistant (18-24 reach the stipe), 2 tiers of short individuals, broad 

 (4-6 mm), edges even. 



Stipe 3-5 cm long, 1.5-3.5 mm thick, concolorous with pileus or 

 paler, usually narrowed below, very fragile, glabrous, viscid, shining, 

 often translucent, surface undulating. 



Spores 6.5-8(9) X 4-5.5 p, ellipsoid, many irregular and variable in 

 shape in dried carpophores, smooth, pale yellow in Melzer's reagent. 

 Basidia 34-43 X 6-8 /*, mostly 4-spored. some 2-spored. Pleuroc) stidia 

 and cheiloevstidia none. Gill trama subparallel. hvphae 6-15 p broad. 



