144 AGARICUS. 



Mycena. ened villous and rooting at the base. Gills attenuated behind, 

 slightly adnexed, broader towards the margin of the pileus, white, 

 sometimes becoming glaucous. 



The stem is elongated among the taller mosses. Readily distinguished 

 from all others by the plentiful white juice of the stem. When old and juice- 

 less it is easily confounded with A. filopes. Growing in troops. 



In woods, among leaves. Common. July-Oct. 



Name yaXa, milk; TTOU'?, a foot. From the white juice of the stem. Pers. 

 Fr, Monogr. i. p. 226. Hym. Eur. p. 149. Berk. Out. p. 128. /. 6. f. 2. C. 

 Hbk. n. 200. Illust. PL 207. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 178. Fl. Dan. t. 1550. f. 2. 

 Gonn. & Rab. t. -j.f. 9. Batt. t. 28. Q. 



304. A. leucogalus Cke. Pileus 12 mm. (> in.) broad and 

 high, purple brown, paler at the margin, becoming black at the 

 umbo, membranaceous, campanulate, umbonate, sulcate to the 

 middle; milk white, plentiful. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, fis- 

 tulose, slender, a little thickened downwards, of the same col- 

 our as the pileus, whitish tomentose at the base. Gills adnate 

 with a small decurrent tooth, rather distant, connected by veins, 

 cinereous. 



Pileus not exceeding an inch. Forming dense caespitose tufts. 



On rotten stump. Kew, 1883. Oct. 



Name Xev6?, white ; yd\a, milk. Grevillea, vol. xii. p. 41. 



VII. GLUTINIPEDES. Stem glutinous, Q^c. 



305. A. epipterygius Scop. Pileus 1-2.5 cent. ( l / 2 -i in.) and 

 more broad, commonly cinereous, membranaceous, campanulate 

 and at length more expanded, obtuse, never depressed, striate, 

 covered over with a pellicle which, when the plant is moist, is 

 very viscous, and in every state easily separable, the margin when 

 young sometimes elegantly denticulate. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) 

 and more long, about 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, tough, often 

 flexuous, rooted and fibrillose at the base, even, viscous, for the 

 most part yellow, but varying cinereous, pallid, whitish. Gills 

 decurrent with a tooth, thin, whitish, cinereous, bluish-grey, 

 rufescent. 



A very changeable species, chiefly as regards colour ; pileus often rufescent 

 when older. Sometimes solitary, sometimes gregarious or casspitose, inodor- 

 ous. Easily distinguished by the viscous pellicle being easily separable both 

 from the stem and the pileus. 



In woods, among grass, &c. Common. Aug.-Nov. 



The stem is generally paler in the middle. Spores ellipsoid, 8-10 x 4-5 mk. 

 K. ; 6-10 x 4-5 mk. B. Name em, upon ; mepvyiov, a membrane. From 



