88 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Pileiis ^-1 in. broad, campanulate or convex, ochraceous, 

 tlie centre blackish (varying somewhat in colour), pellucid, 

 striate. Gills white, arcuato-adiiate or even decurrent. Stem 

 2-3 inches high, about 1 line thick, pale umber, the base 

 somewhat rooting, fibrilloso-tomentose or even strigose, 

 fistulose, not brittle. Milk mild. Taste like that of radishe*^. 

 Subject to some variation in size and form and colour, but 

 known by its white milk. (Berk.) 



Mycena chelidonia. Sow. 



Pileus about 5-7 lines across, flesh very thin; campanulate 

 then convex, obtuse, nearly even ; gills aclnate, rather distant, 

 distinct, narrow, white then tinged yellow; stem up to 2 in. 

 long, thin, equal, smooth, rooting, with a small quantity of 

 yellow juice, often compressed; spores 9-10 x 5 /x. 



Agaricus chelidonius, Sowerby, t. 385 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 87 ; 

 Cke., lUustr., pi. 207a (after Sowerby). 



On beech stumps. 



Distinguished by the yellow juice present in small 

 quantity in the stem. 



On dead beech trunks, somewhat caespitose; with the 

 habit of the yellowish form of M. cdcalina, to which it is 

 allied. Stem hollow, 1^-2 in. long, about 1 line thick, rather 

 fLym, even, glabrous, yellowish, containing a small quantity 

 of yellowish milk, the rooting base downy. Pileus almost 

 membranaceous, campanulate then convex, obtuse |-1 in. 

 broad, glabrous, pellucidly striate when moist, even and 

 opaque when diy, flesh-colour with a yellow tinge, edge 

 quite entire; gills adnate, rather distant, distinct, whitish 

 or yellowish- white. (Fries.) 



Mycena crocata. Fr. 

 Pileus |— 1 in. across, almost membranaceous, conical then 

 campanulate, disc even, umbonate, reddish, olive, grej'ish, 

 or whitish towards the striate margin, edge quite entire ; 

 gills narrow behind and adnexed, rather distant, broadest in 

 front, somewhat ventricose, white ; stem 3-5 in. long, hollow, 

 slightly attenuated from the base, glabrous, saffron-red, due 

 to the copious amount of milk of this colour which pours out 

 when the stem is wounded, especially at the downy rooting 

 portion. 



