SUBSECTION CAMAROPHYLLI 315 



ming: Hittle 30; Thiers, Medicine Bow Mts., July 5, 1950; Wilson. 

 Medicine Bow Mts., July 12, 1950. 



Observations — Hygrophorus ponderatus Brit/, closely resembles 

 H. subalpinus in color and stature, but differs in possessing a gelatinous 

 outer veil. It differs from //. sordidus Pk. in having a dry membranous 

 sheath and a more or less membranous annulus, as well as a thick, 

 equal or somewhat bulbous stipe. The close, narrow, waxy gills are also 

 distinctive. If it were not for the decidedly waxy appearance of the 

 lamellae and the typical divergent gill trama, H. subalpinus could be 

 placed in Ar miliaria next to Armillaria arenicola, with which it has a 

 superficial resemblance. 



190 



Hygrophorus saxatilis Sm. & Hes. 



Lloydia 5: 89. 1942 



Illustrations: 



Fig. 98; also 7b. 



Smith and Hesler, Lloydia 5, pi. 18. 



Pileus 3-8(10) cm broad, obtuse with an inrolled margin when 

 young, becoming plane or with a low obtuse umbo and decurved 

 finely pubescent margin, color whitish to very pale buff with a 

 developing cinnamon tinge ("pale pinkish buff" to "light pinkish 

 cinnamon" ) and occasionally spotted or zoned with "pinkish-cinnamon" 

 spots or zones, slightly viscid when young and moist but soon merely 

 moist or dry, glabrous or when dry appearing appressed-fibrillose 

 under a lens. Context thick, soft, watery-punctate and "pinkish buff" to 

 "light pinkish cinnamon"; taste mild, odor lacking or faintly fragrant 

 and reminding one of dried peaches. 



Lamellae short-decurrent, "light ochraceous salmon" to "light 

 pinkish cinnamon" (more or less pinkish cinnamon-tan) and very 

 beautiful, evenly colored, bright when young and becoming duller in 

 age, subdistant (30-36 reach the stipe), 1-2 tiers of lamellulae, fre- 

 quently more or less wrinkled or crisped, very soft and fragile, narrow 

 to moderately broad (3-6 mm and tapered both ways), rather thick, 

 edges even. 



Stipe 6-8(12) cm long, 10-15(20) mm thick at apex, surface 

 whitish or concolorous with the pileus, equal or narrowed slightly 

 toward the base, solid, flesh concolorous with that of the pileus, un- 

 changing, dry, thinly appressed-fibrillose to the fibrillose-pruinose 

 apex, often appearing more or less longitudinally striate, glabrescent 

 in age and then concolorous with the gills. 



