Harper—Species of Hypholoma, 
1151 
gin in immature plants append!culate with the remains of the 
white thick veil which in very young plants -conceals the lamellae 
but which in mature ones wholly disappears. Flesh white. 
Lamellae close, adnexed, grayish at first, changing to dark 
brown where wounded, becoming blackish brown with age. 
Stem slender, equal, stuffed or hollow, squamose near the base, 
paler than the pilous. Spobes elliptical 7.5x12.5*—15/* 
Pilous 5—13 cm. broad, stem 12—22 cm. long. 
Fir woods, Portland, Oregon, November. 
The dried plants have the general appearance of some species 
of Stropharia but the appendiculate character of the veil and 
the entire absence of an annulus indicate that the species is a 
Hypholoma.” 
Hypholoma .PL LXXVI. 
The plants shown in PI. LXXVI grew on the ground beside a 
log in open woods at Sumner, Washington. They were scattered 
in habit. The pileus was convex or campanulate becoming ex¬ 
panded with a slight umbo, slightly viscid when moist, innate fib¬ 
rous and fibrous scaly on the margin, yellow. Flesh cream color. 
The lamellae were close, ventricose, adnate or slightly decurrent, 
sometimes with a broad shallow sinus, white becoming purple 
brown with the spores. The veil was thick and fibrous covering 
the gills when very young remaining as a fibrous margin on the 
pileus when the plants were mature. The stem was equal or 
tapering slightly downward, hollow or stuffed, fibrous striate 
or scaly, smooth at the top, white above becoming yellowish red 
below. 'Spores purple brown, elliptical 8x12/*. 
The plants have many points in common with Hypholoma 
ambiguum as described by Peck and we would probably have 
referred them to that species if Dr. Murrill had not claimed it 
for the plant in PI. LXXVII A. The plants also agree well with 
the description of the European Hjypholoma dispersum but that 
species is not said to be viscid and our plants do not look like 
Cooke’s figure PI. 586. Fries leones 133 agrees better but 
there is not much evidence for such an identification. 
