274 SECTION HYGROPHORUS 



3. Stipe peronate from a thin white fibrillose inner veil (see unexpanded 

 specimens) 166. H. speciostis var. kauffmanii 



3. Stipe lacking an inner fibrillose veil, outer veil slimy and copious 



165. H. speciosus var. speciosus 



4. Odor aromatic 152. H. cossus 



4. Odor not distinctive 5 



5. Context and epicutis of pileus strongly vellow in KOH; dried stipe with 

 red-brown dots above 154. H. glutinosus 



5. Not as above 6 



6. Spores 6-8 X 3.5-5 p, 168. H. flavodiscus 



6. Spores 8—11 ^ long, 5-7 /j, in diameter 7 



7. Pileus and lamellae pale yellow, stipe slender (5-8 mm thick) 

 167. H. whiteii 



7. Pileus pallid to cream color or yellowish only on disc; lamellae "ivory 

 vellow" (pallid) ; stipe 8-20 mm thick 169. H. gliocyclus 



164 



Hygrophorus hypothejus ( Fr. ) Fr. 



Epicr. Myc., p. 324. 1838 



Agaricus hypothejus Fr., Syst. Myc, p. 35. 1821. 

 Hydrocybe arenicola Murr., Mycologia 4: 208. 1912. 

 Hygrophorus suhpustalcitus (Murr.) Murr., Mycologia 4: 210. 1912. 

 Limacium hypothefum (Fr. ex Fr.) Kummer, Fiihr. in Pilzk., p. 119. 

 1871. 



Illustrations: 

 Fig. 83. 



Bohme, Norsk Soppbok, pi. 8, fig. 79. 

 Boudier, Icon. Myc, pi. 32. 

 Bresadola, Icon. Myc, tab. 317. 

 Cooke, Illus. Brit. Fungi, pi. 891. 

 Gillet, Champ. Fr., pi. 126 (337) . 

 TuiHard-Hartmann, Icon. Champ., ol. 48, fig. 1. 

 Lange, Flora Agar. Dan., 5, pi. 162 D & D 1 . 

 Patouillard, Tab. Analyt, no. 510. 

 Ricken, Die Blatterp., pi. 5, fig. 5. 

 Smith and Hesler, Lloydia 2, pi. 5. 

 Wakefield and Dennis, Common British Fungi, pi. 32, fig. 3. 



Pileus 2-8 cm broad, slightly umbonate, then convex to plane or 

 remaining slightly umbonate, sometimes with a depressed disc and an 

 elevated margin at maturity, glutinous, glabrous or somewhat aggluti- 

 nated-fibrillose near the margin, "bone brown" to "olive brown" on the 

 disc, elsewhere "pale dull green -yellow," "yellow ocher," "buckthorn 

 brown," or "Vandyke brown," colors becoming brighter in age ("straw 

 yellow" to "ochraceous orange" or occasionally "scarlet" in extreme age 

 near the margin), disc remaining more or less dark olive brown. Con- 

 text thin, yellow near the pellicle, watery whitish above the lamellae; 

 odor and taste not distinctive. 



