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Mycologia 



2. Hypholoma fasciculare (Huds.) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 



113. 1872 



This species occurs in the greatest profusion on dead wood of 

 all kinds. The gills are sulfur-yellow to greenish and at length 

 purplish-brown with a greenish tint. The flesh is yellow and 

 intensely bitter, according to descriptions. The spores are ellip- 

 soid, smooth, pale-yellow, becoming purplish-brown, 6-7 X 4 

 and cystidia are said to be present, measuring 40-50 X 10-12 /x. 



Seattle, Washington, Murrill 42^, 501, Zeller g2; Corvallis, Ore- 

 gon, Mi/rn7/ 886; Salem, Oregon, M. £. P^c^; Golden Gate Park, 

 San Francisco, California, Miss Eastwood 14, 15; Marin County, 

 CaHfornia, Miss Eastzuood 11; Mt. Tamalpais, Marin County, 

 California, Miss Eastwood jj; Berkeley, California, Harper 20; 

 Sutro Woods, California, Harper 59; California, Harper; Sears- 

 ville Lake, California, McMurphy ^2; Stanford University, Cali- 

 fornia, McMurphy 155; Monterey, California, L>M(//^3; 1^5; Santa 

 Cruz, California, G. /. Streator; Santa Cruz Mountains, Cali- 

 fornia, Dudley 108. 



5. GoMPHiDius Fries, Gen. Hymen. 8. 1836 



I. GoMPHiDius OREGONENSis Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 326. 



1898 



Pileus at first convex, becoming nearly plane or somewhat 

 centrally depressed, viscid, brown or dark-brown, becoming black 

 in drying, taste sweet and pleasant; lamellae numerous, rather 

 close, adnate or slightly decurrent, blackish in the dried plant; 

 stem short, solid, equal or slightly tapering upward, colored like 

 the pileus ; spores oblong, 10-12.5 /x long, 4-5 /x broad. 



Pileus 5-10 cm. broad; stem 2.5-5 cm. long, 4-10 mm. thick. 



Described from specimens collected by Dr. H. Lane in fir woods 

 in Oregon. According to Dr. Lane, it grows there by the wagon 

 load and is edible. I found it common both in Washington and 

 Oregon. Baker states that the gills are brightly phosphorescent. 

 The spores are translucent with a blackish tint under a micro- 

 scope and measure 11-13X3.5-4.5^1, while in the very closely 

 related G. nigricans, described by Peck from New York in 1896, 

 the spores are 15-25 X 6-7.5 i^- 



