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mains very marked. This is well defined in the figure and letterpress of Mycena. 

 ' Icones ' ; " the darker papillate disc at length depressed." Name o-Treipa, 

 a coil. From the twisted root. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 191. Hym. Eur. p. 147. 

 Icon. t. 78. /. 2. Berk. Out. p. 126. C. Hbk. n. 193. Illust. PI. 190. S. 

 Mycol. Scot. n. 172. 



296. A. tenellus Fr. Wholly white or livid-flesh-colour.- 

 Pileus 12 mm. (^2 in.) broad, membranaceous, very tender, cam- 

 panulato-convex, obtuse, pellucid, slightly striate at the margin. 

 Stem capillary, smooth, soft, villous at the base. Gills uncinate, 

 very thin, crowded, 'white then flesh-colour. 



Cczspitose. 



On decayed trees. Caen Wood. 



Name tener, tender. Diminutive. Very tender. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 147. 

 C. Illust. PL 190. Rail Syn. t. \.f. 2. 



297. A. acicula Schasff. Pileus 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) broad, 

 vermilion - orange, membranaceous, campanulate then convex, 

 with a very small slightly flesliy umbo, striate, smooth, shining. 

 Stem 4-5 cent. (\/4-2 in.) long, delicately fistulose, rooted, wholly 

 bristle- like, very smooth (with exception of the rooting base), 

 bright shining, intensely yellow. Gills rounded-adnexed, almost 

 free, comparatively broad, ventricose, somewhat ovate, distant, the 

 alternate ones shorter, yellow, whitish at the edge or wholly 

 white. 



Stem somewhat pruinose at the apex. Although -very tender it is very tough 

 &&& persistent. 



On leaves, twigs, &c. Frequent. July-Oct. 



Spores 8-iox 2-4 mk. B. Name acicula, a small pin. Schceff. t. 222. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 223. Hym. Eur. p. 147. Icon. t. 85. /. 3. Berk. Out. p. 127. 

 C. Hbk. n. 194. Illust. PL 190. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 173. B. young, with 

 white gills. Lasch. A. clavus Bolt. t. 39. B. 



VI. LACTIPEDES. Stem milky, &c. 



298. A. hsematopus Pers. Pileus about 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, 

 white-flesh-colour, fleshy-membranaceous, slightly fleshy chiefly 

 at the disc, conical then campanulate, obtuse, nay convex and 

 spuriously umbonate, naked, even or slightly striate at the margin, 

 which is at the first elegantly denticulate. Stem 5-10 cent. (2-4 

 in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) and more thick, remarkably fistulose, 

 rigid, normally everywhere pulverulent with whitish delicate 

 villous down, sometimes, however, denuded of it. Gills adnate, 

 often with a small decurrent tooth, the alternate ones shorter, in 



