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Hebeloma paludicola Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus small, thin, convex to expanded, gregarious, 1-2 cm. broad; surface viscid, smooth, glabrous, grayish-rosy-isabelline, bay on the disk in mature specimens and over most of the surface in young stages, margin entire, concolorous; lamellae sinuate, ventricose, subdistant, pallid to clay-colored; spores ovoid, smooth, melleous, tapering toward the apex, obliquely apiculate at the base, 9-10 X 6 n stipe long, slender, equal, white, whitish-fibrillose from the remains of the slight, evanescent veil, much twisted in dried specimens, 5-6 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick.
Type collected among sphagnum in marshy ground at Lake Placid, Adirondack Mountains, New York, October 3-14, 1912, W. A. fr Edna L. Murrill 776 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
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William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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