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and bright ; gills often coloured, but the spores are in all cases 

 white, and in one group the edge of the gills is coloured. 

 Latex, white, red, or saffron, is present in some species, and 

 escapes in drops when the fungus is broken. Allied to Golly - 

 bia, which differs in having the mai-gin of the pileus incurved 

 when quite young. Most species grow on the ground ; a few 

 on wood, twigs, &c. 



95. Mycena galericulata, Scopoli, Carn., 445; Austr. Fung., 

 p. 23 ; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 1002. 



Pileus conical, then campanulate, at length expanded, 

 thin and somewhat flexible, umbonate, dry, glabrous, rather 

 coarsely striate up to the umbo, greyish, often with a more or 

 less decided brown tinge, 2-5 cm. across ; gills adnate, with a 

 decuri'ent tooth, about 1 mm. broad, connected by veins, 

 white, becoming tinged with pink when old or dry ; spores 

 6-7x4;;,; stem variable in length, 5-10 cm., 2-5 mm. thick, 

 equal, rigid, even, polished, pallid ; base tapering and often 

 rooting, densely strigose, hollow. 



On trunks and stumps. New Zealand. Australia, Tas- 

 mania, Europe, United States. 



Solitary, or more frequently tufted ; sometimes growing on 

 the ground, probably springing from buried wood. 



Most closely allied to Mycena rugosa, a species not yet 

 found in New Zealand. The latter, however, differs in having 

 the pileus radially wrinkled or rugulose nearly up to the disc, 

 but not distinctly striate ; the stem is also shorter and com- 

 pressed ; finally, the gills are greyish-white without a trace of 

 pink when old. 



96. Mycena epipterygia, Scopoli, Carn., p. 453; Brit. Fung.- 

 Fiora, iii., p. 86 ; Sacc, Syll. v., no 1109. 



Pileus membranaceous, campanulate, obtuse, becoming 

 more or less expanded, never truly depressed, striate, covered 

 with a pellicle that is very viscid in wet weather and easily 

 separable in every atmospheric condition, colour variable, 

 usually grey, or often pale yellowish-green near the margin, 

 which is often minutely notched when young, 1-2-5 cm. 

 across ; gills adnate, with a decurrent tooth, thin, whitish or 

 with a tinge of grey; spores elliptical, 8-10 x 4-5 ^u,; stem 

 5-10 cm. long, about 2 nnn. thick, hollow, tough, often wavy, 

 base rooting and tibrillose, even, viscid, usually yellowish but 

 sometimes grey, pallid, or whitish. 



On branches, twigs, among moss, &c. New Zealand. 

 Europe, Siberia, United States. 



Solitary or clustered. Colour variable, but readily known 

 by the viscid pileus and stem, both being furnished with a 

 slimy separable pellicle. 



