390 SECTION HYGROPHORUS 



slightly paler near the margin. Context thick, whitish, unchanging, odor 

 faintly fragrant, taste mild. 



Lamellae evenly flushed pale pink ("pale pinkish buff") or at 

 times white (in Smith 59650, pale salmon when young), not spotted, 

 subdistant to distant, narrow, decurrent. 



Stipe 6-10 ( 12) cm long, 10-15 mm thick, equal or slightly enlarged 

 above, solid, flesh whitish and unchanging, surface dry, glabrous and 

 unpolished or the apex slightly fibrillose pruinose, "buffy brown" up to 

 an abruptly paler zone at the line of gill attachment, somewhat un- 

 even below, the basal buried portion gray and watery but not viscid. 



Spores 5.5-8 X 4-5 /x, ellipsoid, smooth, pale yellowish in Melzer's 

 reagent. Basidia 40-60 X 6-8 /x, sterigmata stout, 2- and 4-spored. Pleu- 

 rocystidia and cheilocystidia none. Gill trama divergent, hyphae 3-7 jx 

 broad. Cuticle a well-defined, gelatinous zone, 100-200 /x thick, of tan- 

 gled, fuscous, narrow (2-4 /x) hyphae, at times many hyphae more or 

 less erect, almost forming a palisade (an ixotrichodermium ) . Hypo- 

 Fig. 124. H. calophyllus 



