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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AM) OTHERWISE 



Mycena iris. B. 



I'ik'us is small, convex, expanded, obtuse, slightly viscid, striate, quite 

 when young", growing brownish with blue fibrils. 



The gills are free, tinged with gray. 



The stem is short, bluish below, tinged with brown above, somewhat pruinose. 

 Found in damp woods after a rain, in August. 



Photo by Prof. G. D. Smith. 

 FIGURE 95. Mycena pura. 



Mycena pura. Pers. 



Pura mean> unstained, pure 



The pileus is fleshy, thin, bell-shaped, expanded, obtusely umbonate, finely 

 striate 011 the margin, sometimes haying margin upturned, violet to r< 



The gills are broad, adnate to sinuate, in older plants sometimes free by 

 breaking away from the stem, connected by veins, sometimes wavy and crenate 

 on the edge, the l'(\^c of the gills sometimes almost or quite white, violet, rose. 



The stem is even, nearly naked, somewhat villous at the base, Sometimes 

 almost white when young, later assuming the color of the cap, hollow, smooth. 



The spores are white and oblong. 6-8x3-3.5. M. lVlianthina differs from 



