SUBSECTION HYGROPHORUS 265 



"cadmium orange," to "rufous," margin paler ("salmon-buff"), in age 

 "madder brown," "ferruginous," "salmon-buff," "zinc orange" or "apricot- 

 buff" over all, glutinous, the gluten pale amber or colorless, viscid in 

 age, glabrous except for a cottony fibrillose margin. Context thick, firm, 

 white, or at times faintly tinged sordid incarnate; odor and taste none 

 or mild. 



Lamellae adnate to slightly adnexed, usually becoming decurrent, 

 at first "cartridge buff" or "sea-shell pink" then "pale pinkish buff," 

 darker incarnate-tan in age or when decaying, close to subdistant, mod- 

 erately broad, alternately long and short, edges even. 



Stipe 3-10 cm long, 5-20 mm thick, whitish or tinged incarnate-tan, 

 the color often deeper in age, equal or with a flaring apex and a nar- 

 rowed base, basal portion glutinous from the remains of the thick gelati- 

 nous universal veil, minutely squamulose above the viscid portion, 

 solid. 



Spores 6.5-8 X 3-4.5 /x, ellipsoid, smooth, yellow in Melzer's reagent, 

 white in mass. Basidia 38-50 X 6-9 fx, 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and 

 cheilocystidia none. Gill trama divergent, hyphae 4-9(15) fx broad, 



Fig. 79. H. subsabnonius 



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