



SUBSECTION CAMAROPHYLLI 355 



Spores 12-15 X 7-9 xx, elliptic to ovate in face view, obscurely in- 

 equilateral in profile, yellowish hyaline in Melzer's solution, smooth, 

 thin-walled. Basidia 4-spored, 50-80 X 10-12 /x, reddish in sections 

 mounted in Melzer's solution. Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia none. 

 Gill trama of divergent hyphae from a central strand. Epicutis of pileus 

 a thick layer of gelatinous, branched, flexuous hyphae 2-4 /x in diameter 

 intricatelv interwoven, the layer pinkish red in Melzer's reagent. 

 Clamp connections present. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distribution — Mt. Hood, Oregon, near Tim- 

 berline Lodge, under hemlock. July 7, 1957. Christel and Donald Goetz 

 No. 6. This species is named in honor of Goetz. 



This species is obviously closely related to H. avelloneifolius and 

 H. sublutescens but is at once distinguished from both by its giant 

 spores on 4-spored basidia. 



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Hygrophorus pseudolucorum Sm. & Hes. 

 Sydowia 8: 311. 1954 



Pileus 1-3.5 cm broad, obtuse to nearly plane with an incurved 

 margin, expanding to plane or shallowly depressed, with or without a 

 low umbo, color near "apricot orange" or disc pinker and margin yellow, 

 in age sometimes nearly ferruginous on the disc, surface viscid but soon 

 dry, at first appearing as if covered by a very faint fibrillose coating. 

 Context thin, pallid, yellowish, no color change on bruising; odor and 

 taste none. 



Lamellae decurrent, pallid when young, yellowish in age, subdis- 

 tant to distant, broad, edges even. 



Stipe 3-5 cm long, 3-5 mm thick, white or whitish at first, gradually 

 lutescent especially where handled, drv, with a thin, fibrillose veil leav- 

 ing an inconspicuous apical zone which soon vanishes, silky above the 

 zone. 



Spores 9-12 x 6-7 /x from deposits, when revived in KOH 8-11 X 

 5-6.5 /x, obscurely inequilateral in side view, in face view elliptic or 

 nearly so, smooth, hyaline, yellowish in Melzer's reagent. Basidia 50- 

 75 X 8-9 /x, 4-spored, pedicels flexuous. Pleurocystidia and cheilocvs- 

 tidia none seen. Gill trama of divergent hvphae (4-8 /x broad) from a 

 central strand. Cuticle a narrow zone of repent, gelatinous hvphae. Pi- 

 leus trama of interwoven hyphae. Clamp connections present. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distribution — Gregarious under mixed 

 hardwoods and larch, Michigan, October. 



Material Studdzd — Michigan: Smith 38943 (type, collected by 

 Kent McKnight, North Lake, Washtenaw County, Oct. 25, 1951). 



