CLASSIFICATION OP AGAR* 



white, etc., often reined or with the interspaces veiny. STEW 

 .~)-ii) cm. Long, 2 I nun. thick, cylindrical, Bometimes twisted, even, 

 toughish, glabrous, hollow, more or less bairj al base, colore*] I ik>- 

 or paler than pileus. SPORES elliptic-oblong, 6-7x3-3.5 micr., 



s oth, white. CYSTIDIA few on Bides of gills, clavate-cylin 



drical, abonl L0-50s 12-15 micr. Sterih cells nol abnndanl on 

 edge of gills, similar bu1 smaller. ODOE somewhat of radish. 



Caespitose or scattered to solitary. <»u bumus, moss or mncb 

 decayed logs in frondose <>r mixed woods, or tamarack, balsam and 

 cedar swamps. Throughout the State. June to October. (Earlii 

 record June 11. Latest October L) Common. 



A widely distributed Mycena, beautifully colored and one of 

 the Larger species of the genus. lis prevailing color, which often 

 extends into the gills, is a pair rose-purple (Ridgway, aew ed.)i 

 although ii varies, under different conditions, Localities or in age, 

 in darker or lighter shades. Peck (23rd Rep.) saya the ombo La 

 lacking, hut I have seen it often in the form shown by 

 Cooke, Patouillard and Gillet in their illustrations Schroeter 

 i Die Pilze Schliesiens) says the ed.iies of the gills are densely beset 



wiih tystidia. 'Phis is shown in Patouillard's figure; these I have 



usually referred to as "sterile cells." The very young pileus is 

 ovate-subconical, and hoary-pubescent. 



847. Mycena minutula Pk. 

 X. V. State Mils. Rep. 25, 1873. 



I'M. Ill's 2-8 nun. broad, campanulate then expanded, whi 

 papillate, glabrous, moist, striatulate i" center. GILLS adnate 

 with tooth, subdistant, rather broad, white, interspaces ven< 

 STEM 2-4 cm. Long, filiform, scarcely .•"» nun. thick, white, elastic, 

 run red throughout its length by microscopic, subcylindrical hairs, 

 about ■"•" micr. Long, l »'» micr. thick, which give LI a mealy appear- 

 ance. SPORES 6-8x3.5-5 micr., elliptical, oval, bi th, wh 



BASIDLA L-spored, 18-20 micr. Long. CYSTIDLA aone. ODOR 

 and TASTE none. 



Gregarious or scattered on moss of prostrate trunks, on rotten 



w l. twigs, etc., of pine, lurch and oak w Is. New i: 



Ann Arbor. September-October. Enfrequent. 



The pruinosity of the stem and the entirely white color of the 



spores characterize this little species. It must not I onfused 



with 1/. crystallina Pk. and M. immaculata I'k. 



