A monograph on the genus Galerina Earle / by Alexander H. Smith and Rolf Singer.

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The Genus Galerina Earle

point; trama of lamellae and pileus yellow, not distinctly incrusted, regular;
epicutis of pileus of hyaline filamentous hyphae which are not gelatinized.
Hyphae with clamp connections.
HABIT, HABITAT, AND DISTRIBUTION: Gregarious on dark sand of riverside near the glacier, attached to small twigs of Fitzroya cupressoides, March
16, 1959, Rio Frias, path to Paso de los Nubes, Rio Negro (Patagonia),
Argentina, Singer M 1849-typus (LIL).
This variety is intermediate between G. badipes and G. cedretorum var.
bispora as far as veil development is concerned, it differs from the latter in
narrower shorter stipe, more copious veil, and more distant lamellae. It
differs from var.filiformis in the color of the base of the stipe and the definitely
weaker exosporial ornamentation; and from variabilis in the more numerous
and considerably larger cystidia. G. badipes differs from var. austroandina in
veil characters, close and moderately broad lamellae, hyaline cystidia, and
rusty ochraceous pileus trama.
162c. Galerina cedretorum var. filiformis Smith & Singer, var. nov.
Illustrations: P1. 5, fig. B; pl. 14, fig. E.; pl. 17, fig. A.
A varietate typica carne aquosa fragili, stipite filiformi deorsum fibrilloso, glabrescente differet. Ad quisquilia lignea coniferarum. Specimen
typicum in Herb. Univ. Mich. conservatum; legit prope Green Lake, Mt.
Rainier National Park, Washington, Oct. 17, 1952. Smith 41032.
Pileus (8)10-15 mm broad, obtusely conic, in age broadly conic to
convex, surface glabrous, moist and translucent striate, hygrophanous, pale
ochraceous fading to pale pinkish buff or more yellowish; flesh very soft and
fragile, concolorous with surface, odor and taste not distinctive.
Lamellae broad, broadly adnate, seceding, subdistant, pale ochraceous
tawny, edges slightly fimbriate.
Stipe 20-35 mm long, 1-1.5 mm thick at apex, equal or nearly so,
more or less concolorous with moist pileus and thinly pallid-fibrillose over
lower half, base darkening, either where bruised or in age, to reddish brown.
Spores (9)10-12 X 5-6.5 I, obscurely inequilateral in profile view,
ovate in face view, rugulose warted, suprahilar depression smooth and distinctly delimited, occasional spores with blisters around the depression.
Basidia 2- and 4-spored. Pleurocystidia scattered, 40-60 X 10-15 pt, fusoidventricose with obtuse apices, hyaline, thin-walled. Cheilocystidia abundant, 40-55 X 8-10(12) p, some scarcely ventricose, hyaline, thin-walled.
Gill trama regular, ochraceous in KOH. Pileus trama homogeneous,
ochraceous in KOH. Clamp connections present.
HABIT, HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION: Gregarious on very rotten conifer
and herbaceous debris, Green Lake, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington. Known only from the type locality.
OBSERVATIONS: The spores of this variety are more like those of G.
marginata in their markings than like those of G. consobrina or G. cedretorum var.
cedretorum. The soft consistency is a character at variance with the other taxa