CLASSIFICATION OP AGARICS 791 



fleshy, while. GILLS adnexed-rounded behind, becoming sinuate, 

 narrow, at first <lnll violet, becoming brownish, close, edgi purple. 

 STEM 5-8 cm. long, 2-5 nun. 1 1 1 i « k . equal, often curved at base, 

 fragile, hollow, even, glabrous, sordid whitish or streaked with 

 violaceous fibrils. 



Solitary or scattered. Among fallen leaves in frondose woods. 

 Throughout the State. Julj September. Frequent. 



Baa the size of M. pura, but differs from ii in that the edge of the 

 gills is darker from the colored cystidia, in the more solitary 

 habit and the cylindrical stem. Generally only one or two plants 

 are found in a place, it seems to prefer maple, oak and beech 

 woods. The color of the cap is variable and hard to describe, 

 usually of a dirty color. Fries Bays it is intermediate between the 

 genera Collvbia and Mvcena. 



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841. Mycena rosella Fr. 



Syst. Myc. 1821. 



Illustration: Cooke. 111., PI. 131. 



PILEUS i-15 mm. broad, campanulate-convex then hemispherical 

 to subexpanded, obtusely umbonate, sometimes plane on disk, sul- 

 catestriate, pale rose color, paler and tinged ochraceous in age, 



glabrous. FLESH membranaceous, fleshy at umbo. (JILLS broad' 

 ly adnate, slightly subdecurrent, medium broad, subdistant, pal* 

 rose-colored, edge darker. STEM 4-5 cm. long. 1 mm. thick, /»l- 

 lucid-flesh color, filiform, hollow, cartilaginous, slightly tough, gla- 

 brOUS, even, attached at base by white, hairy tomentum. SPORES 

 oblong-elliptical, 8-9x4 micr., smooth, white. CYSTIDIA on -ides 



and edge of gills, dense on edge, ventricose, narrowed to acuminate 



above, 60-70x12-15 micr.. filled with a rosj to flesh-colored sap 



when mature. ODOE at first none, becoming nitrons alter being 

 picked. 



Caespitose, usually of 2 or ■'< stems, sometimes connate by the 

 white tomentum, sometimes gregarious. On and among pine 



needles and other fallen leaves, in w Is of white pine and oak. 



New Richmond, Marquette. September-October. Common 

 locally. 



This pretty little Mycena is well named, h can be easily dig 

 tinguished by the pale posy coloring of the cap and -ill- and by its 

 habitat. The surface of the cap and stem is slightly viscid or 



InbricOUS when the plant is fresh, and this is due to ;i \er\ thin 



