296 SECTION HYGROPHORUS 



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Hygrophorus megasporus Sm. & Hes. 



Lloydia 2: 25. 1939 



Illustration: 

 Fig. 89. 



Pileus 2-5 cm broad, fleshy, at first broadly campanulate, with a 

 mammillate umbo, at length expanded plane, surface beneath "buffy 

 olive" with the umbo "clove brown," margin slightly paler, glutinous 

 from the hyaline veil, glabrous, the surface often uneven from the dry- 

 ing gluten, margin incurved and membranous. Context thin, white, un- 

 changing; odor and taste mild. 



Lamellae adnate with a tooth, becoming subdecurrent, pure 

 white, close to subdistant, 3-4 mm broad, thickish, waxy, a few forked. 



Fig. 89. H. megasporus 





