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Hygrophorus subsordidus Murr. 



Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. Jour. 55: 371. 1939 



Illustration: 

 Fig. 96. 



Pileus 4-10 cm broad, convex, finally expanding, often somewhat 

 depressed, entirely white or the disc at times straw vellow, minutely 

 rivulose-silky or appearing glabrous, viscid, margin even, undulate or 

 lobed. Context white, unchanging, thick, abruptly thin on the margin; 

 odor and taste mild. 



Lamellae adnexed or adnate-subdecurrent, white, unchanging, 

 narrow, subdistant, some forking midway, lamellulae numerous, edges 

 even. 



Stipe 3-8 cm long, 10-20 mm thick, white, moist and usually some- 

 what lubricous, not viscid, equal or often tapering downward, apex 

 pruinose, elsewhere fibrillose, subrimose, solid. 



Fig. 96. H. subsordidus 



