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Hygrocybe nitrata (Pers.) Wünsche, Pilze: 112 (1877)

Hygrocybe murinacea sensu Moser (1967), sensu Breitenbach & Kränzlin [B&K3 (1991)]
Agaricus nitratus Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 356 (1801)
Hygrophorus nitratus (Pers.) Fr., Hymenomyc. Eur. (Uppsala): 421 (1874)

Habitat: On soil in unimproved grassland.

Notes: Occasional in Scotland and Northern Ireland, rarely reported elsewhere.

Distribution: E: !, S: o, W: !, NI: o, ROI: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 79807; Scotland: K(M) 62622; Wales: K(M) 62624 (very old record); ROI: K(M) 62620

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), as Hygrocybe murinacea, p. 112, pl. 94
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 82
D:, in anon., Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 2: Critical Monographs of Families of Agarics and Boleti occuring in the Netherlands Pleurotaceae, Pluteaceae, and Tricholomataceae 1, (Ed.: C.Bas, Th.W. Kuyper, M.E. Noordeloos & E.C. Vellinga) 2: 137 pp. (1990), p. 103
D+I:, in Boertmann, D., Fungi of Northern Europe: The genus Hygrocybe 1: 184 pp. (1995), p. 74-75

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