From: ir@ene.nu   
      
   On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:30:59 +0100, "danijel"  wrote:   
      
   >I never found or   
   >see that species - Hygrocybe laeta.   
      
   It's a widespread species, but much more common up north. There are   
   several forms with different colours, but the gelatinized gill-edge   
   makes it easy to sort out from other species. It can be seen in a   
   microscope as a palisade of ixocheilocystidia. I usually recognize it   
   by the peculiar greyish tint on gills and top of the stipe, the very   
   slimy cap and stem, and the tough fruitbodies (as the opposite of   
   brittle).   
   The one in Dimitars pictures seem to have that greyish tint, but I   
   can't see if the gill-edge is gelatinized, so it's only a guess so   
   far.   
      
   >Giussepe Pace writes that they grows with pines as those at pictures.   
   >And Geoffrey Kibby writes that they have smell of burnt rubber.   
      
   Yes, the smell is a good character too.   
   I usually find it in very poor grasslands, sometimes mixed with   
   Calluna and/or Cladonia - once on a moss-covered stone in a coniferous   
   wood.   
      
   Irene Andersson   
      
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