SUBSECTIOX IIYGROPHORUS 257 



Lamellae adnate or broadly adnate, white then "ivory yellow," be- 

 coming "napthalene yellow" where bruised, drying to "blackish brown 

 (1)" (dark reddish brown), subdistant to close, medium broad, edges 

 even. 



Stipe 4-6(15) cm long. 2-8 mm thick, dull white, becoming "pale 

 pinkish buff" or yellow where bruised, drying dingy, glutinous, gla- 



Fig. 75. 



H. chrysaspis 



brous, apex pruinose-punctate and beaded with pale-yellow drops, 

 equal or tapering downward. 



Spores 7-8(9) X 3.5-4.5 /*, ellipsoid, smooth, pale yellowish in Mel- 

 zer's reagent. Basidia 40-54 X 6-8 /a, 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and 

 cheilocystidia none. Gill trama divergent, hyphae 3-9(12) p broad. 

 Cuticle a zone of brownish, gelatinous hvphae, some free ends more or 

 less erect. Pileus trama of radially disposed hyphae. Clamp connections 

 present on the cuticular hyphae. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distribution — On soil, under hardwoods, es- 

 pecially beech, Michigan and Tennessee, August-October; also Europe. 



Material Studied— Michigan : Smith 6060, 39697, 44056, 57873, 

 58115, 58119, 58120, 58121, 58122. Tennessee: Hesler 4450, 4452, 9648, 

 19438, 22212, 22704. England: Reid, Aldburg, Sept. 5, 1954. france: 

 Metrod 557; collection by Josserand; collection bv Huijsman. nether- 

 lands: Bas 1098. austrl\: Moser, Sept. 14, I960 (Hesler 24118). 



