358 SECTION HYGROPHORUS 



evenly "russet" to "tawny" when young, at maturity "tawny" on the disc 

 and "pinkish buff" on the margin, viscid, glabrous, margin faintly to- 

 mentose under a lens, usually plicate crenate when unexpanded. Con- 

 text whitish, rather thin and rigid; odor strong, penetrating and aro- 

 matic, taste mild. 



Lamellae bluntly adnate or decurrent by a tooth, edges even, "mar- 

 guerite yellow" to "cream-buff" when young, "cream color" in age, dis- 

 tant, broad (1 cm ) , often forking near the margin of the pileus, 

 thickish. 



Stipe 4-7 cm long, 8-15 mm thick, concolorous with the lamellae or 

 whitish, equal above a narrowed base, solid or sometimes hollowed at 

 the apex, dry, evenly fibrillose-pruinose over upper half with whitish 

 fibrils, glabrous and unpolished below. 



Spores 10-14 x 5.5-7.5 /x, ellipsoid, smooth, pale yellowish in Mel- 

 zer's reagent. Basidia 50-82 X 7-9 /x, 2- and 4-spored, sterigmata stout. 



Fig. 113. H. pacificus 



