372 SECTION HYGROPHORUS 



broad in large caps (8-12 mm), creamy white, unchanging, edges even. 



Stipe (4)7-14 cm long, 8-25 mm thick at the apex, white or pale 

 pinkish buff, equal or narrowed downward, solid, firm, surface dry, cot- 

 tony pruinose at apex when young, merely unpolished over all in age, 

 not staining when bruised, in moist weather often beaded with hyaline 

 drops of liquid. 



Spores 7-9(10) X 4.5-5(6) /x, ellipsoid, smooth, yellowish in Mel- 

 zer's reagent. Basidia 40-54 X 6-8 /a, 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and 

 cheilocystidia none. Gill trama divergent, hyphae 4-8 fi broad. Pileus 

 trama homogeneous. Cuticle, an ixotrichodermium, the gelatinous 

 zone 100-250 fx thick, hyphae tangled as in H. paludosus but broader 

 (4-8 fi), more conspicuously septate, and with an hypodermium of 

 brownish, more or less parallel hyphae which are periclinally dis- 



Fig. 119. H. bakerensis 





