108 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Var. calopus, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 139 ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 223a. 



Stems eliestnnt-coloiir, united at tlie base into a coiumon^ 

 fusiform rooting stem. 



On stumps. 



Mycena polygramma. Bull. 

 Pileus thin, elastic, conico-campanulate, often becoming 

 expanded ; dark grey with, brown tinge when moist, paler 

 when dry, margin coarsely striate ; gills broadest in front, 

 thick, distant, pale grey, often with a suggestion of pink, 

 then whitish; stem 3-4 in. long, equal, tough, shining,' 

 distinctly striate throughout its length, pale grey, bMse 

 strigose, rooting; sjDores elliptic-oblong, obliquely apiculate^ 



11-12 xe IX. 



Agaricus (^Mycena') polygrammus, Bull., Champ., t. 395 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., t. 223b. 



On trunks, stumps, &o. 



Separated from M. 2^licata by the tougher substance and 

 slriate stem. 



Pileus 1—1^ in. broad, at first cinereous, umber towards 

 the margin, glandiform, prninose, then livid brown, conico- 

 campanulate, submembranaceous, rugose with innate fibres, 

 irargin striate. Gills rather distant, at first dirty-white, 

 then pinkish, ventricose though sometimes almost linear, all 

 but free, margin subseri ulate. Stem 3 in. high, 1 line or 

 more thick, regularly and deeply striate, the interstices 

 fibrillose, but occasionally the striae are obsolete, silvery, 

 rooting, fistulose, nearl}' the colour of the pileus, but paler, 

 twisted, brittle. Inodorous, insipid. (Berk.) 



Mycena parabolica. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-1 J in. high and broad, flesh quite thin; at first 

 erect and oval then parabolic, obtuse, moist, somewhat 

 shining, glabrous, even, disc blackish with a violet tinge, 

 remainder pallid becoming whitish towards the striate 

 margin ; gills adnexed, ascending, rather distant, slightly 

 connected by veins, margin quite entire, white, base 

 greyish ; stem 2-3 in. long, about 2 lines thick at the coarsely 

 hispid base, thinner upwards, blackish-violet above, base 

 paler, covered with white meal when younij^, even, glabrous, 

 dry, fistulose, not very rigid; spores elliptical, 11-12 x 6 /x. 



