SUBSECTION HYGROPHORUS 305 



Fig. 94. H. tephroleucus var. aureofloccosus 



subdistant to nearly close, medium broad, lamellulae numerous and 

 alternating, edges even. 



Stipe 2.5-7(12) cm long, 3-8(10) mm thick, at times compressed, 

 apex and base whitish or base yellowish, elsewhere tinged brownish or 

 concolorous with the pileus, floccose-squamulose or scabrous, tips of 

 scales golden-yellowish at first, then ashy to brownish or darker, viscid, 

 equal or tapering downward, solid, becoming hollow. 



Spores 8-15 X 4.5-6(6.5) /* (mostly 8-10 X 4.5-5 p., several 10- 

 15 X 5-6 fi), ellipsoid to sublanceolate, smooth, pale yellow in Melzer's 

 reagent. Basidia 44—58 X 6-8 it, 2- and 4-spored, sterigmata at times 

 long (10-38 fx). Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia none. Gill trama 

 divergent, hyphae 7-15 /x broad. Cuticle of fuscous, more or less erect, 

 loosely tangled, gelatinous, narrow (3-4.5 /a) hyphae, an ixotricho- 

 dermium. No hypodermium differentiated. Pileus trama of radial, more 

 or less parallel hyphae. Clamp connections present on the hyphae of 

 the cuticle and the gill trama. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distribution — Gregarious in pine, spruce, 



