SUBSECTION CAMAROPHYLLI 325 



196 



Hygrophorus piceae Kiihn. & Romagn. 



Illustrations: 



Fig. 102; also lOe. 



Karsten, Myc. Fenn., tab. 32. 



Pileus 1-4(6) cm broad, convex, becoming plane or with an up- 

 lifted margin, snow white over all, viscid, glabrous to innately ap- 

 pressed fibrillose under the viscidity, context soft, white; odor and 

 taste not distinctive. 



Lamellae adnate, decurrent in age, snow white, becoming pale 

 pinkish buff, subdistant (25-30 reach the stipe), broad, some forked 

 near the margin of the pileus, rather thin, edges even. 



Stipe (1.5)3-5 cm long, 3-5(8-12) mm thick, tapering downward, 

 moist to dry (no gelatinous veil present in button stage), glabrous 

 over lower half, upper half covered by a white cottony fibrillose coat- 

 ing, apex not scabrous, hollow. 



Fig. 102. H. piceae 



