SUBSECTION CAMAROPHYLLI 349 



Material Studied — California: Pusateri 8; Smith 9333, 55924, 

 56301. idaho: Smith 55070, 55104. MAINE: Bigelow 4646. new york: 

 Kauffman & Smith, Adirondack Mts., Sept. 1914, North Elba, Sept. 

 1914. oregox: Smith 27326, 27400, 27797, 27799, 27886, 27897, 27952, 

 28003, 31072, 48497. Washington: Smith & Bigelow 48491, 48826, 

 62126; Stuntz F513. France: Geesteranus 12654 (ex-Herb. Leiden). 

 Austria: Moser, Sept. 29, 1952 (Hesler 24130). 



Observations — The darker colors of the pileus and gills, and lack 

 of a fibrillose veil should distinguish it from H. purpurascens. Moser 

 (1955) gives the spores 7-10 X 3.5-5 /x. Hongo (1958a), reporting this 

 species from Shiga-Prefecture, Japan, says H. purpureobadius Imai is a 

 synonym. 



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Hygrophorus erubescens ( Fr. ) Fr. var. erubescens 



Epicr. Myc., p. 322. 1838 



Agaricus erubescens Fr., Syst. Myc, p. 32. 1821. 



Limacium erubescens (Fr.) Wunsche, Die Pilze, p. 117. 1877. 



Illustrations : 

 Fig. 110. 



Bresadola, Icon. Myc, tab. 306. 

 Smith and Hesler, Lloydia 2, pi. 19. 

 Juillard-Hartmann, Icon. Champ., pi. 49, fig. 5. 



Pileus (2)5-8 cm broad, convex, becoming umbonate plane, disc 

 "Vandyke red" to "Hessian brown," elsewhere whitish to "flesh pink" or 

 "orange vinaceous," fading, a pink tinge often pervading the entire 

 pileus, margin incurved and minutely tomentose, often with drops of 

 moisture, even, surface glutinous or viscid, streaked with fibrils, finally 

 with spot-like scales over the disc. Context white, often staining yellow- 

 ish where bruised, thick on disc, thin on margin, soft; odor and taste 

 not distinctive. 



Lamellae adnate becoming decurrent, "pale pinkish buff," or 

 flushed "shell pink," soon spotted or stained pinkish red, close to sub- 

 distant, medium broad, narrow T ed in front, edges stained "purplish - 

 vinaceous," even or eroded. 



Stipe 4-7 cm X 6-12 mm, dry, base attenuated, scaly, becoming 

 beaded with drops of moisture above, appressed-fibrillose to scabrous, 

 becoming scurfy below, apex white, elsewhere "pale brownish vina- 

 ceous," at times yellowish when bruised, base whitish, solid or stuffed. 

 Veil none. 



Spores 7-10(11.5) X 5-6 fi, ellipsoid, smooth, pale yellow in Mel- 

 zer's reagent, white in mass. Basidia 53-64 x 6-9 /x, 4-spored. Pleuro- 



