346 SECTION HYGROPHORUS 



Fig. 108. H. russida 



Pileus 5-12 cm broad, hemispheric or convex, sometimes broadly 

 umbonate, expanding in age and often with an elevated margin, mar- 

 gin long remaining inrolled and finely cottony pubescent, color varia- 

 ble: "shrimp pink," "cameo pink," "coral pink," "vinaceous pink" or 

 "deep vinaceous," the margin whitish to "Chatenay pink," disc purplish 

 red or pinkish red, viscid, soon dry, usually streaked with purplish-red 

 fibrils, surface smooth at first but breaking up into minute appressed- 

 fibrillose patches giving the disc a granulose to subscaly appearance, 

 sometimes staining yellowish when rubbed. Context thick, white or 

 tinged pinkish, firm; odor and taste mild. 



Lamellae bluntly adnate, becoming decurrent, white when young, 

 soon flushed with pale pink and later spotted with sordid purplish-red 

 spots, sometimes sordid purplish red over all in age, rather close, narrow 

 to moderately broad, acuminate at the ends. 



Stipe 3-7 cm long, 15-35 mm thick, white at first, becoming stained, 

 streaked, or laved with pinkish, finally more or less concolorous with 

 the pileus, equal or slightly tapering downward, at times subventricose, 

 dry, apex pruinose to glabrous, glabrous below, solid. 



