394 SECTION HYGROPHORUS 



Fig. 126. 



H. morrisii 



tone in places, glabrous, viscid to glutinous, pellicle separable. Context 

 whitish, becoming cinereous at least under the cuticle; odor and taste 

 not distinctive. 



Lamellae adnate then short-decurrent, white, yellowish near cap in 

 one, grayish there in an old one, not staining appreciably, subdistant, 

 broad, edges often eroded or uneven. 



Stipe 3-9(11) cm long, 3-9 mm thick, white, pallid, or brownish, in 

 age with dingy-yellow stains below or nearly to apex, equal or nar- 

 rowed below, solid, furfuraceous-flocculent, straight or flexuous. 



Spores 8-11 X 5-7 /a, ellipsoid, smooth, yellowish in Melzer's re- 

 agent. Basidia 44-62(74) X 6-9 /a, 2- and 4-spored. Pleurocystidia and 

 cheilocystidia none. Gill trama divergent, hyphae 5-9(12) /x broad. 

 Cuticle a broad zone, 100-300 fx thick, of gelatinous, repent, hyphae, 

 which are 2-4 ^ broad. No hypodermium differentiated. Clamp con- 

 nections present on the cuticular hyphae. Surface hyphae of stipe 

 gelatinous and with clamp connections. 



Habit, Habitat, and Distribution — On soil, under conifers, 

 Massachusetts, Michigan, Idaho, California, and Canada (Quebec), 

 November-December. 



Material Studied — California: Smith 56616. idaho: Smith 

 53937, 59445. Massachusetts: Davis, Stow, Oct. 14, 1911; Morris (type, 

 from Waltham, Nov. 1898), also Nov. 1899 and 1906; Kauffman 711. 

 Michigan: Bailey 94; Smith 60800. Canada: (Quebec) Smith 61861. 



Observations — The description of microscopic characters above is 

 based on our study of the type. The description of macroscopic 



