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Fig. 71. H. minutuhis 



Habit, Habitat, and Distbibution — Gregarious to scattered on 

 grassy soil, Nova Scotia, New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, 

 Tennessee, Alabama, Michigan, Texas, Montana, and Oregon, May- 

 October; also Japan (Hongo, 1951a). 



Matebial Studied — Alabama: Burke 61, 89. Massachusetts: 

 Bigelow 6766, 8854. Michigan: Brooks 1255; Smith 18714, 22072, 

 61296. Montana: Kauffman, Echo Lake, July 14, 1928. new yobk: Peck 

 (type, from Sandlake, July), nobth cabolina: Coker 8197; Hesler 

 7332, 8197, 13721, 14387, 22356; Smith 10158. obegon: Smith 28356. 

 Tennessee: Hesler 11556, 12908, 13799, 14429, 19637; Sharp 4399, 

 19695. texas: Thiers 1862. Canada: (Nova Scotia) Harrison 44494. 



Obsebvations — The following notes have been recorded for the 

 type: Spores 8-10 X 4-5 fx, ellipsoid, smooth, faintly yellow in Melzer's 

 reagent. Basidia 34-48 X 5-7 /x, 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and cheilo- 

 cystidia none. Gill trama parallel to subparallel, hyphae 4-8 /x broad. 

 Cuticle of more or less repent, gelatinous hyphae 4-8 fx broad. Clamp 

 connections present on the cuticular hyphae. 



Hygrophorus subminutnlus is similar but has smaller spores. Ap- 

 parently Coker 's material (No. 2791), reported from North Carolina 

 as H. sciophanus, is not different from H. minutulus. 



