Myce?ia 



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285. C. Dorotheas Sacc. (after Lady Dorothy Neville) a. 



P. globose, then flat, slightly umbilicate, very thin, dark brown ; 

 marg. denticulate. St. slightly swollen at base, minutely 

 velvety, white, yellowish or rufous. G. adnexed, narrow, 

 white. 

 On dead fern-stems in hothouses. 



->i 



in. 



286. C. caldarii Sacc. (from its habitat, a caldarium or hot-hoUse) a. 

 P. hemispherical, slightly umbonate, brown. St. paler than P. 



G. adnato-decurrent, somewhat ashy. 

 On Sphagmttn in orchid-pot. f X2jx jj$ in. 



IX. MYCENA Quel. 

 (Gr. ??iukes, a fungus.) 



Veil almost obsolete, only seen in fibrillse, pile, flock, tomentum 

 or gluten. In Section h, Basipedes, the edge of the pileus is 

 connected with the circumference of the basal disc in infancy, and 



Fig. 18.— a, a, Mycena epipterygia Quel. ; 

 B, ditto in section. One-half natural size, 

 c, M. tenerrima Quel., young state showing 

 basal disc and veil ; d, M. stylobates Quel., 

 young state, showing basal disc and veil ; 

 e, basal disc ; c, D, e, enlarged. 



so forms a kind of universal veil. Hymenophore confluent with but 

 heterogeneous from the cartilaginous stem. Pileus at first conico- 

 cylindrical, becoming more or less campanulate, submembranous, 

 not cartilaginous, never truly umbilicate, margin more or less 



