SUBSECTION IIYGROPHORUS 303 



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Hygrophorus tephroleucus ( Fr. ) Fr. var. tephrolcucus 



Epicr. Myc., p. 328. 1838 



Agaricus tephroleucus Fr., Syst. Myc, p. 34. 1821. 



Limacium tephroleucum (Fr. ) Kummer, Fiihr. in Pilzk., p. 119. 1871. 



Illustrations: 

 Fig. 93. 



Lange, Flora Agar. Dan. 5, pi. 163A. 

 Smith and Hesler, Lloydia 2, pi. 9. 



Pileus 1-3 cm broad, convex to plane, occasionally slightly de- 

 pressed, not umbonate, pallid-cinereous near the margin, dark ashy 

 gray over the disc, fading to pale ashy gray over all in age, viscid, ap- 

 pearing appressed fibrillose under the gluten, in age appressed-scaly. 

 Context whitish, soft, thin; odor and taste not distinctive. 



Lamellae adnate, becoming decurrent, white, becoming creamy 

 in age, subdistant, broad. 



Stipe 4-6 cm long, 2-3(4) mm thick, white over all at first, equal, 

 solid, white within, white fibrous-punctate near the apex, more or less 

 fibrillose below, base in young specimens coated with a thin layer of 

 gluten, soon dry, the fibrils over the upper part cinerescent and dark 

 gray in age. 



Spores (7)8-10 X 4-5 n, ellipsoid, smooth, pale yellow in Melzer's 

 reagent. Basidia 40-58 X 6-8 p, 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and cheilo- 

 cystidia none. Gill trama divergent, hypbae 4-9 /x broad. Cuticle of 

 gelatinous, more or less erect or somewhat repent, fuscous, narrow 



Fig. 93. H. tephroleucus var. tephroleucus 



