Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hygrophorus paludosus Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 29; 70. 1902
Pileus fleshy, convex, obtuse, 2-4 cm. broad; surface whitish, covered with yellow or brown gluten: context white, the odor earthy, the taste slightly acrid; lamellae adnate or subdecurrent, subdistant, whitish, stained greenish-yellow when old: spores hyaline, 8-10 X 5-7 fi: stipe rather long, flexuous, often curved at the base, nearly equal, glutinous, white with yellow glandular dots at the apex, streaked with brown gluten when dry, solid, 5-10 cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick.
Type locality: Greenville, Michigan. IJabiTat: Growing among sphagnum. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY