64 AGAEICIXI. 



"Pilens 3 lines across, conical, striate, pallid grey, darker in tlie centre, 

 minutely rivulose ; margin sub-crenulate ; stem short, slightly curved, shin- 

 ing, quite smooth, minutely fistulose; gills distant, slightly adnexed, white, 

 with a purple margin. Under a high magnifying power the pileus (especially 

 the edge) and stem appear clothed with minute glandular particles, similar 

 to those which colour the edge of the gills." — B. cD Br. 



169. Agaricus (IVIycena) elegans. P. " Elegant Mycena." 



Pileus submembranaceous, campanulate, striate, almost um- 

 bonate ; stem even, equal, rigid, floccoso-fibrillose at the base ; 

 gills narrow, adnate, livid or wbitish, edge yellow, entire. — Fr. 

 Epicr.p. 100, Fl Dan. t. 2024,/. 2. Eng. Fl. v. p. 59. 



In woods. [S. Carolina.] 



Pileus I in. or more across, greyish, or livid yellow, obtuse, striate, mar- 

 gin paler, gills rather broad, adnate, with a minute tooth, scarcely ven- 

 tricose, the part nearest the pileus livid; margin beautiful yellow; stem 1-2 

 in. high, rather brittle, slender, minutely pilose, yellow above, brown below, 

 fistulose, the base strigose, rather swollen, filled with watery juice. — J/. •/• B. 



170. Agaricus (Mycena) rubromarginatus. Fr. " Red- 



bordered Mycena.'" 



Pileus somewhat membranaceous, campanulate, obtuse, striate, 

 hygroplianous ; stem rigid, even, without juice ; gills adnate, dis- 

 tant, whitish, edged with purple or purple-brown. — Fr. Epicr.p. 

 101. Berk. Out. p. 122. 



On pine stumps. Nov. 



Stem 1-2 in. long, scarcely exceeding 1 line thick, equal, livid, pallid. Pileus 

 membranaceous, obtuse, about an inch across, hygrophanous, livid reddish 

 or purpiish-brown, becoming pale. Somewhat resembling A. sanf/uinolenius 

 but distinguished at once by the absence of red juice in the stem. — M. J. B. 



171. Agaricus (lYIycena) strobilinus. Fers. " Fir-cone 



Mycena."' 



Scarlet. Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate, with an acute umbo, 

 even ; margin striate ; stem rigid, without juice, even, clothed 

 with white strigose hairs at the base ; gills adnate, edge of a dark 

 blood-red Qo\oM\'.—Fr. Epicr.p. 101. Fl. Dan. t. 202b, f. 1. Ag. 

 coccineus, Sow. 1. 197. Eng. Fl. v. p. 59. A. coccinellus, Fr. Mon. 

 Hym.\\.p.2()0. 



On fir cones. Eare. 



Subgregarious, subfasciculate. Pileus 3-5 lines broad, campanulate, with 

 a rather short, fleshy umbo, smooth, bright red, or red-orange, striate at the 

 margin ; gills adnate, with a decurrent process, distant, whitish-red, edges 

 dull and darker red ; stem 1-2 in. high, hollow, firm, smooth, pale red, stri- 

 gose at the base and whitish, often with a long root.— Grerc. 



