SUBSECTION CAMAROPHYLL1 317 



24438, 24962, 26654, 27543, 28390. Washington: Bigelow 48905; Smith 

 17665, 17769, 17896, 17979, 31213, 31719, 48592, 48931; Smith & 

 Bigelow 47821, 49078. 



Observations — This is a very striking and easily recognized 

 species because of the beautiful gills. The odor is very easily missed in 

 collections of only a few fruiting bodies, but when several baskets full 

 are brought into a room the odor becomes very noticeable. At Lost 

 Creek, Oregon, where the fungus was found most abundantly, it was 

 noticed that spore-prints made on the top of one cap by an over- 

 hanging pileus were more or less dark ochraceous salmon in color, 

 darker than the color of the pileus on which the deposit was made. 

 All spore-prints made in the laboratory from these and other pilei were 

 white. We still have no explanation for these observations. At least a 

 dozen colored spore-prints were observed in the field at Lost Creek, 

 and it was apparent that the age of the cap had no bearing on spore- 

 color. The habitat of this fungus is distinctive insofar as our data go, 

 but data based on a single season's collections must not be given too 

 much emphasis. The character of the stipe is also peculiar for a species 

 of this section in that it is evenly fibrillose at first and pruinose at the 

 apex instead of scabrous. No evidences of a partial veil were visible 

 even in the smallest buttons. It appears to be related to H. karstenii 

 Sacc. & Cub., but differs in its more or less salmon-colored rather than 

 yellow gills. 



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Hygrophorus karstenii f. minor Bres. 



Icon. Myc, tab. 331. 1928 



Illustrations: 

 Fig. 99. 

 Bresadola, Icon. Myc, tab. 331. 



Pileus 3-5 cm broad, broadly convex to nearly plane with an in- 

 rolled margin, expanding to broadly convex or with an arched margin, 

 color a dull creamy white and unchanging, surface glabrous, subviscid 

 to touch when wet but soon dry and then with an unpolished ap- 

 pearance or shining in places along the margin. Context white thickish, 

 soft; odor and taste not distinctive. 



Lamellae decurrent, creamy yellowish, waxy, close, becoming sub- 

 distant, narrow to moderately broad, some forking, edges even. 



Stipe 3-5 cm long, 6-12 mm thick, solid, equal or nearly so, white 

 within, surface dry and matted-fibrillose causing it to appear un- 

 polished, the fibrillose silky coating extending to apex, no veil present. 



