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Mycena Leaiana. Berk. 



Leaiana named in honor of Mr. Thomas G. Lea, who was the first man to 

 study mycology in the Miami Valley. This is a very beautiful plant growing - on 

 decayed beech logs in rainy weather. The pileus is fleshy, very viscid, bright 

 orange, the margin slightly striate as will be seen in the one whose cap shows. 



The gills are distant, not entire, broad, notched at the stem, attached, the 

 edge a dusky orange, or vermilion, the short gills beginning at the margin. 



Figure 94. Mycena leaiana. Natural size. Caps bright orange and very viscid. 



The stem is in most cases curved, attenuated toward the cap, smooth, hollow, 

 /ather firm, quite hirsute or strigose at the base. The spores are elliptical, 

 apiculate, .0090X.0056 mm. 



They are csespitose, growing in dense tufts on logs somewhat decayed. It is 

 extremely viscid, so much so that your hands will be stained yellow if you handle 

 it much. It grows from spring to fall but is usually more abundant in August 

 and September. Very common. 



