SUBSECTION HYGROPIIOHUS 267 



beneath the gluten, the upper half dry and pruinose to minutely white 

 fibrillose-furfuraceous, often beaded with drops of moisture near the 

 apex. 



Spores 7-9 X 4.5-5.5 /z, ellipsoid, smooth, yellow in Melzer's rea- 

 gent. Basidia 42-54 x 5.5-7 ft, 2- and 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and 

 cheilocystidia none. Gill trama divergent, hyphae 4-9 \x broad. Cuticle 

 a well-defined gelatinous layer, 150-270 ^ thick, hyphae more or less 

 erect, 3-6 /x broad, an ixotrichodermium. No hypodermium evident. 

 Pileus trama of radial, subparallel hyphae. Clamp connections on the 

 cuticular and gill trama hyphae. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distribution — On soil, in woods, California, 

 Oregon, and Washington, October-November. 



Material Studied— California : Sipe 392; Smith 8087, 8088, 8154, 

 8856, 26778. Oregon: Murrill 802 (type, from near Mill City, Nov. 9, 



Fig. 80. H. variicolor 



