374 SECTION HYGROPHORUS 



broadly conic or convex, but it expands with age till it is nearly or 

 quite flat. It sometimes has a small central prominence or umbo. Un- 

 der a lens the surface has a slightly silky appearance. The color is 

 some shade of red and may be rusty red, tawny red or grayish red. The 

 extreme margin is sometimes white, and in some specimens a reddish 

 brown encircling line or narrow band is seen near the margin. Occa- 

 sionally the margin is yellow. The flesh is white, slightly tinged with 

 yellow under the inseparable cuticle. . . . The gills are white and not 

 closely spaced side by side. They are broadly attached to the stipe or 

 slightly decurrent on it. The stem is white, stuffed or hollow and 

 rather short. It is 1 to 2 inches long and 2 to 3 lines thick. The cap 

 rarely exceeds 1 inch in diameter. It has been found near Warrensburg 

 only. It appears in October." 



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Hygrophorus subrufescens Pk. 



N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 67: 23. 1903 



Camarophyllus subrufescens (Pk.) Murr., North Amer. Flora 9: 387. 

 1916. 



Illustration: 



Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 67, pi. M., figs. 1-6. 



Pileus about 2.5 cm broad, convex or nearly plane, pale pink or 

 grayish red, dry, minutely floccose-squamulose. Context whitish faintly 

 tinged pink; taste mild. 



Lamellae decurrent, whitish, distant, medium-broad. 



Stipe 4-8 cm long, 4-8 mm thick, white, equal, glabrous, solid. 



Spores 5.5-8 X 4-5 /a, ellipsoid, smooth, non-amyloid. Basidia 

 52-68 X 6-8 fx, 2- and 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia none. 

 Gill trama divergent, hyphae 3-7 ^ broad. Cuticle a trichodermium, the 

 surface hyphae radial and more or less erect (not a palisade), septate, 

 3-10 /jl broad, the terminal elements often cystidioid. No hypodermium 

 differentiated. Pileus trama of radially disposed hyphae. Clamp con- 

 nections present on the cuticle and gill trama. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distribution — On soil, among fallen leaves, 

 in woods, New York, August. 



Material Studied — new york: Peck (type, from Port Jefferson, 

 Suffolk County, August). 



Observations — This species was thought by Peck (1903) to be a 

 Camarophyllus, but the gill trama of the type is divergent. The de- 

 scription of microscopic characters given above is based on our study 

 of the type. 



