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rooting. Grills adnate, linear, somewhat crowded, the alternate ones 

 shorter. Flesh very thin. Spores white, elliptical, 10 x 6-7 /u, minutely 

 echinulate. Amongst moss, and short grass. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 

 JW;.) 



C. ludia Fr. = Mycena lactea (Pers.) Fr. var. pithya (Pers.) Fr. 

 B. Gills becoming cinereous. Hygrophanous. 

 8. P. fuscous, or becoming cinereous. 

 *Gills crowded, rather narrow. 



1061. C. rancida Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 210, t. 153, upper figs. 



Rancida, stinking. 



P. 2-5 cm., lead colour, or fuliginous, disc blackish, or fuscous, at 

 first covered with a delicate, silky, white pruina, then becoming paler, 

 slightly fleshy-cartilaginous, tough, convex, then plane, broadly and 

 obtusely umbonate, smooth, viscid when very wet. St. 715 cm. x 4 

 6 mm., livid, becoming greyish, rigid, equal, tense and straight, smooth, 

 attenuated at the base into a long, fusiform, villous root. Gills dark 

 cinereous, somewhat pruinose, free, crowded, narrow, but ventricose. 

 Flesh greyish, thin at the margin. Spores white, oblong elliptical, 

 9-10 x 4-5/x, 1-2-guttulate, minutely punctate. Smell like rancid 

 meal. Woods, and hedgerows. Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1062. C. eustygia Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 1146, t. 1185. 



ev, truly; crrvyia, belonging to the nether world. 

 P. 3-5 cm., dingy white, disc a little darker, shining when dry, fleshy, 

 convex, then plane, sometimes depressed, sometimes wavy, smooth. 

 St. 5-8 cm., white above, sprinkled with small punctate scales, darker 

 below and often becoming sooty, attenuated downwards into a rooting 

 base, often curved, somewhat longitudinally striate, or fibrous. Gills 

 dark grey, rounded behind, adnexed, or almost free, rather broad, 

 not crowded. Flesh white, thick at the disc. Spores white, globose, 

 4r-5fj,. Smell like rancid meal. The whole plant becoming black in 

 drying. On the ground. Oct. Uncommon. 



1063. C. coracina Fr. Kopa^, a raven. 

 P. 24 cm., fuscous and shining, becoming grey and opaque when dry, 



somewhat fleshy-cartilaginous, convexo-expanded, umbonate, or de- 

 pressed, often irregular and undulate, smooth, hygrophanous', margin 

 sometimes wrinkled. St. 2-4 cm. x 4-8 mm., becoming fuscous, very 

 cartilaginous, tough, rigid, at length fragile, often compressed, or 

 twisted, apex mealy with white squamules, attenuated downwards to 

 the swollen base. Gills whitish grey, obtusely adnate, separating-free, 

 broad chiefly behind, scarcely crowded, distinct, then connected by 

 veins. Flesh white, scissile, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4/A, 

 punctate, 1-guttulate ("greenish" Quel.). Smell strong of new meal. 

 Grassy places, and fir plantations. Oct. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



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