Murrill: Illustrations of Fungi 



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Hebeloma luteum Murrill 



Egg-yellow Hebeloma 



Plate 9- X i 



Pileus large, thick, fleshy, convex to plane, solitary, 5-10 cm. 

 broad; surface smooth, glabrous, viscid, luteous; margin ochra- 

 ceous, entire, not striate; lamellae sinuate, ventricose, crowded, 

 melleous to ferruginous; spores ellipsoid, smooth, subfulvous in 

 mass, melleous under the microscope, 7-8.5 x 4-5 /x; stipe equal or 

 tapering upward, smooth, dry, glabrous, pearly-white, 5-7 cm. long, 

 7-15 mm. thick; veil fibrillose, slight, evanescent. 



Described, figured, and known only from specimens collected on 

 the ground in woods near Stockbridge, Massachusetts, early in 

 September, 191 1. This is another genus that is too difficult and 

 too imperfectly known as yet to be recommended to amateur 

 mycophagists. 



New York Botanical Garden. 



