354 SECTION HYGROPHORUS 



16. Stipe silky above; pileus ochraceous-tawny to clay color 



227. H. avellaneifolius 



16. Stipe densely pruinose over at least part; pileus pinkish buff, toned 



cinereous 17 



17. Stipe densely pruinose above or all over except the mycelioid base; epi- 



cutis merelv of tangled hyphae 



225. H. cinereipallens var. cinereipallens 



17. Stipe pruinose at the apex, the base with rusty-brown fibrillose squa- 



mules; epicutis a tangled trichodermium 



226. H. cinereipallens var. fallax 



18. Odor of bitter almonds; stipe 1-2 cm thick at apex 



228. H. bakerensis 



18. Not as above 19 



19. Pileus reddish tawny to grayish red; under Larix .... 229. H. laricinus 

 19. Not as above 20 



20. Pileus squamulose; epicutis of pileus a trichodermium of septate 

 hyphae 3-10 /x diameter 230. H. subrufescens 



20. Pileus cuticle not a trichodermium 21 



21. Stipe pruinose to fibrillose-punctate 231. H. roseibrunneus 



21. Stipe with coarser ornamentation, i.e., scabrous-roughened 22 



22. Stipe white above, soon pale alutaceous below; lamellae close . . . 

 232. H. subisabellinus 



22. Not as above 23 



23. Pileus slimy-viscid, disc reddish tan as in H. discoideus 



233. H. leucophaeus 



23. Pileus merely subviscid, whitish but tinged alutaceous to vellowish on 



disc 234. H. penarius 



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Hygrophorns goetzii, sp. nov. 



Pileus 2-5 cm latus, late convexus, glutinosus, albidus demum pal- 

 lide aiutaceus; lamellae subdistantes vel distantes, pallidae, late adna- 

 tae; stipes 3-6 cm longus, 3-8 mm crassus; sericeus, siccus, subalbidus; 

 sporae 12-15 X 7-9 fx. Specimen typicum ledum prope Mt. Hood, Ore- 

 gon, July 7, 1957, Christel and Donald Goetz 6. 



Pileus 2-5 cm broad, obtuse to broadly convex, expanding to 

 broadly convex or nearly plane, at times slightly depressed, surface gla- 

 brous, slimy-viscid, rosy pink when young, fading out to cream color in 

 age but drying a grayish pinkish-buff. Context thin, pallid to cream 

 color, unchanging when bruised, odor and taste mild. 



Lamellae subdistant to distant, broadly adnate, broad in age, one 

 tier of lamellulae, pallid to cream color drying almost concolorous with 

 the pileus, edges even. 



Stipe 3-6 cm long, 3-8 mm thick, equal or nearly so, entirely 

 cream color and drying almost concolorous with pileus, surface dry, 

 apex silky and smooth, base hairy-strigose. 



