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Hvgrophorus tennesseensis Sm. & Hes. 



Lloydia 2: 40. 1939 



Illustration: 



Fig. 115. 



Pileus (2)6-12 cm broad, convex then expanded, becoming 

 depressed, marginal portion whitish to "clay color" or "tawny-olive," 

 central portion "tawny" to 'fawn color," viscid or glutinous, pellicle 

 separable to disc, glabrous, margin even or substriate, involute, floc- 

 cose-fibrillose. Context white, thick ( up to 8 mm ) on the disc, thin on 

 margin, compact; odor distinct in young and in fresh specimens, re- 

 sembling that of raw potatoes, taste bitter. 



Lamellae adnate becoming short-decurrent, white, linear, about 

 7 mm broad, subdistant, many lamellulae. venose at cap. edges even. 



Stipe 6-10 cm long, 8-18 mm thick, whitish or dingv, dry, more or 

 less flexuous. tapering downward, fibrillose-striate, upper portion floc- 

 cose-scabrous, solid. 



Spores (6)7-9 X 4.5-6 n, ellipsoid, smooth, yellowish in Melzer's 

 reagent. Basidia 38-54 X 7-9 ft, 4-spored, rarely 2-spored. Pleurocys- 

 tidia and cheilocystidia none. Gill trama of divergent hvphae, 4-9 fx 



Fig. 115. H. tennesseensis 



