SUBSECTION HYGROPHORUS 307 



redwood, Michigan, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, California, and 

 Washington, August-December; also Europe. 



Material Studied — California: Smith 3937, 56352. Colorado: 

 Smith 52704. idaho: Smith 23542, 23585, 46905, 53324, 54161; Smith & 

 Bigelow 46181, 47016; Smith & Shaffer 53283; Shaffer 53507; Wester- 

 dale 60685. Michigan: Smith 43527, 43627, 44053. Washington: Smith 

 49189. Wyoming: Smith 35721. Denmark: J. P. Jensen (Hesler 23959). 



Observations — The lower portion of the stipe is viscid to subviscid, 

 whereas the upper portion is dry. Thus, this species is keyed out in 

 both the subsections Hygrophorus and Clitocyboides. For additional 

 comments on this species, see H. tephroleucus. 



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Hygrophorus paludosoides, sp. nov. 



Illustration : 

 Fig. 95. 



Pileus 4-8 cm lotus, obtusus demum convexus, glutinosus, olivaceo- 

 brunneus demum palUdo-firfigineus, deinde luteo-olivaceus vel pallid- 

 ior; odore et gustu mitis; lamellae late adnate demum subdecurrentes, 

 cremeo-albus vel paulum rubicundae, immaculatae, latae, subdis- 

 tantes; stipes 4-8 cm longus, 11-20 mm crassus, possidens copiosum 

 gluten inferior em stipitis partem olivaceo-fuligineis lineis et panniculis 

 tingens, fusco-olivaceus, siccus, apice albo-serico-floccosus sine scabie, 

 saepe possidens guttas pellucidas quae siccatae aureo-brunneae fiunt; 

 velum interim nullum; spores 7-9 X 5-5.5 /*, ellipsoideae. Specimen 

 typicum in Herb. Univ. Mich.; ledum in Highlands, Mich., Sept. 16, 

 1961, A. H. Smith 64303. 



Pileus 4-8 cm broad, obtuse to convex, the margin incurved, 

 broadly convex or with an obtuse umbo when mature, surface gluti- 

 nous, olive brown to pale fuliginous, drying tawny olive or paler, mar- 

 gin thinly cottony at first. Context white, firm, odor and taste mild. 



Lamellae broadly adnate to subdecurrent, broad, subdistant, 

 creamy white or with a faint pinkish reflection, not spotted, edges 

 even. 



Stipe 4-8 cm long, 11-20 mm thick, equal to a narrowed base, solid, 

 white within, with a copious gluten which stains the lower half of the 

 stipe with olive-fuliginous streaks and patches and dries to a tawny 

 olive, as does the gluten on the pileus, apex white silky-floccose and 

 lacking scabrosity, but often beaded with droplets of a hyaline liquid, 

 in drying this layer pulling apart into patches, becoming orange-brown 

 and giving a punctate appearance to dried specimens; no inner dry 



