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Fig. 86. H. paludosus 



very glutinous, gluten colorless becoming smoky, in age appearing 

 zoned, streaked or netted beneath the gluten, margin even, involute, 

 fibrillose. Context thick, rather firm, white, not changing color when 

 cut or bruised; odor and taste not distinctive. 



Lamellae adnate, becoming decurrent, white, often becoming sor- 

 did greenish-spotted in age, moderately broad, close to subdistant, 

 edges even. 



Stipe 5-12 cm long, 10-20 mm thick, equal above a narrowed base, 

 subradicating, solid, thick-glutinous over the lower two-thirds, gluten 

 pale smoky to nearly hyaline at first and leaving sordid bands over the 

 lower portion when dry, and a thin white-fibrillose sheath present be- 

 neath the gluten, white and scabrous-punctate above, in age the scales 

 or points staining sordid yellowish to greenish, white beneath the 

 gluten, in age sometimes sordid greenish at the base. 



Spores 8-11 X 5-7 /a, ellipsoid, smooth, white in mass, pale yellow 

 in Melzer's reagent. Basidia 42-60 X 7-9 it, 2- and 4-spored. Pleurocys- 

 tidia and cheilocystidia none. Gill trama divergent, hyphae 4-12 /x 

 broad. Cuticle an ixotrichodermium, about 350-550 p thick, hyphae 

 slender (2-5 //,), septate, more or less erect, the zone similar to that of 

 H. fuligineus but in H. paludosus the epicuticular hyphae are pale 

 fuscous. Hypodermium well-developed, similar to that in H. fuligineus. 



