SUBSECTIOX CAMAR0PHYLL1 387 



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Fig. 123. H. agathosmus 



scarcely fading, sometimes with watery zones or spots near the mar- 

 gin. Context soft, whitish or watery gray; odor fragrant and very pro- 

 nounced, of bitter almonds (occasionally the odor weak), taste mild. 



Lamellae adnate, becoming adnate-decurrent, white becoming 

 sordid grayish in age, close to distant (40-50 reach the stipe), moder- 

 ately narrow, rather thin. 



Stipe 4-8(10-16) cm long, 6-14(19-25) mm thick, whitish at first, 

 pale ashy in age, equal or narrowed toward the base, solid, dry or moist 

 but no gelatinous universal veil present, evenly fibrillose pruinose over 

 all at first, glabrescent. 



Spores (7)8-10.5 X 4.5-5.5 /x, ellipsoid, smooth, yellowish in Mel- 

 zer's reagent. Basidia 48-65 X 6-8 /x, 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and chei- 

 locystidia none. Gill trama divergent, hyphae 5-10 /* broad. Cuticle a 

 broad (175-350 /*), gelatinous zone, with loosely interwoven, slender 

 (1.5-4 fx), sparingly septate hyphae, an ixocutis, the surface hyphae 

 fuscous. No hypodermium differentiated. Pileus trama of loosely inter- 

 woven hyphae which are radially disposed. Clamp connections found 



