SUBSECTIOX CAMAROPHYLLl 335 



Kauffman's and our collections compare very well with those in Peck's 

 herbarium as well as with material from Dr. Rolf Singer from the 

 U.S.S.R., we have designated them H. pudorinus. 



It is possible that the viscidity described for the stipe of this species 

 by Kuhner and Romagnesi ( 1953 ) is the kind referred to above, but 

 even so, North American specimens do not have the odor they describe. 



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Hygrophorus pudorinus var. fragrans ( Murr. ), comb. nov. 



Mycologia 4: 210. 1912 



Hygrophorus fragrans Murr., Mycologia 4: 210. 1912. 



Illustrations: 

 Fig. 105. 

 Smith and Hesler, Lloydia 2, pi. 14. 



Pileus 7-20 cm broad, convex, becoming plane or with a slightlv 

 uplifted margin, margin remaining inrolled and downy pubescent 

 until maturity, surface glutinous, becoming viscid, somewhat felty 

 fibrillose under the gelatinous pellicle, color "apricot orange" to 

 "salmon color" on the disc, "sea-shell pink" or paler near the margin, not 

 fading appreciablv. Context pale "salmon color" in the pileus, white in 

 the stipe, staining yellow and finally orange when bruised; odor 

 faintly fragrant, taste mild. 



Lamellae adnate, "pale pinkish buff to "pale pinkish cinnamon," 

 never trulv white, thin, close, becoming subdistant (60-80 reach the 

 stipe), moderately broad (1-1.5 cm). 



Stipe 10-20 cm long, 1.5-3.5 cm thick, narrowed to a point at the 

 base, solid, surface drv, fibrillose over lower half, scabrous-punctate 

 and often beaded with drops over the upper half, color white or flushed 

 with pink, staining yellow, finally orange when bruised, base "ochra- 

 ceous buff" to "zinc orange" inside and out. 



Spores 7-9.5 X 4.5-5.5 /x, ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, non-amvloid. 

 Basidia 44—52 X 6-8 ^, 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and cheilocvstidia none. 

 Gill trama of divergent hyphae, 3-6 li broad. Cuticle a gelatinous zone 

 300-400 ix thick, hvphae tangled, those on surface brownish in KOH, 

 those below colorless, narrow (2-4.5 //). No hvpodermium differenti- 

 ated. Pileus trama interwoven to somewhat subparallel, radiallv dis- 

 posed. Clamp connections present on the hvphae of the cuticle and the 

 gill trama. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distbibutiox — Gregarious under spruce, 

 hemlock, and redwood, California, Colorado, and Oregon, November- 

 December. 



