348 SECTION HYGROPHORUS 



whitish, reddish or concolorous; odor and taste not distinctive. 



Lamellae adnate, becoming decurrent, at first pallid, becoming 

 flesh color or dull pink, finally concolorous with the pileus, rather dis- 

 tant, broadest in the middle, narrowed at the ends, rigid, thickish, in- 

 tervenose. 



Stipe 3-6 cm or 5-10 cm long, 6-10(12) mm thick, whitish with a 

 reddish tinge at first, becoming concolorous with the pileus, the apex 

 usually remaining paler, dry, equal or subventricose, innately pruinose- 

 fibrillose, substriate, apex floccose-punctate, veil lacking. 



Spores 6.5-8 X 4.5-5 /x, ellipsoid, smooth, pale yellowish in Melzer's 

 reagent. Basidia 44-58 X 6-7 li, 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and cheilocys- 

 tidia none. Gill trama divergent, hyphae 4-9 /x broad, with an opaque 

 mediostrate. Cuticle an ixocutis, 100-180 ^ thick, the hyphae colorless, 

 3-7 ll broad, septate, branched. No hypodermium differentiated. Pileus 

 trama of interwoven hyphae which are chiefly disposed radially. The 

 appressed scaly-dotted areas on the disc are composed of slightly con- 

 vex concentrations of brownish hyphae. Clamp connections present on 

 the hyphae of the pileus trama, gill trama, and cuticle. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distbibution — Scattered under spruce and 

 in Sphagnum bogs, Maine, New York, Idaho, California, Oregon, and 

 Washington, September-December; also Europe, and Japan (Hongo 

 1958a). 



Fig. 109. H. capreolarius 



