374 MYCENA 



azure-blue-floccose. St. 6-7 cm. x 1-2 mm., azure-blue-floccose, equal, 

 tomentosely rooting. Gills white, or cinereous, slightly adnexed, dis- 

 tant; edge fringed with azure-blue, or red floccules. Flesh tinged with 

 blue, thin at the margin. Spores white. Fir trunks amongst Hypnum 

 cupressiforme. Aug. Sept. Uncommon. 



1189. M. avenacea (Fr.) Schroet. Avenacea, oaten. 

 P. 1-2-5 cm., dirty yellowish brown, disc often darker and obtusely 



umbonate, submembranaceous, campanulate, 1 cm. high, wrinkled 

 when dry; margin striate. St. 5-6 cm. x 1-2 mm., yellowish brown, 

 apex paler, equal, tough, shining, base white floccose. Gills dirty white, 

 or greyish, slightly adnexed, fairly distant, 1-5-2 mm. broad; edge 

 floccose, brown. Spores white, ovate ellipsoid, 9-11 x 5-6 /i. Cystidia 

 filled with a brownish juice, flask-shaped, pointed above, sometimes 

 branched, attenuated at base, 45-70 x 6-12 x 2-5-3/x at apex. 

 Woods, hedgerows and wood stacks. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon. 

 (9.9.) 



var. olivaceo-marginata (Massee) Rea. Cke. Ulus. no. 1153, t. 959, 

 fig. A, as Mycena olivaceo-marginata Massee. 



Olivaceus, olive-coloured; marginata, bordered. 

 Differs from the type in the smaller spores, 6-7 x 4-5 /i. Amongst 

 short grass in pastures, hill sides, and hedgerows. Sept. Nov. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



1190. M. aurantio-marginata Fr. Fl. Dan. t. 1292. 



Aurantius, orange; marginata, bordered. 



P. 1-2 cm., olivaceous-fuscous, or olivaceous tan, becoming paler, 

 fleshy, campanulate, then convex, obtuse, or obsoletely umbonate, 

 smooth; margin striate when moist. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., yellow- 

 ish, or greyish, firm, equal, smooth, base inflated ventricose, clothed with 

 strigose yellow hairs. Gills grey, then greenish livid, very attenuato- 

 adnexed, very ventricose, crowded, connected by veins ; edge orange, 

 floccose. Flesh fuscous, becoming whitish, thick at the disc. Spores 

 white, elliptical, or pip-shaped with a lateral apiculus, 6-8 x 4-5/i. 

 Cystidia filled with a yellowish juice, broadly clavate, or bludgeon- 

 shaped, coarsely verrucose, 30-34 x 12/z. Smell none, or strong. 

 Grassy places in woods and amongst conifer needles. Aug. Nov. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1191. M. elegans (Pers.) Fr. Elegans, graceful. 

 P. 10-12 mm., yellow fuscous, or light yellow livid, opaque, mem- 



branaceous, campanulate, more or less umbonate; margin saffron 

 coloured, slightly sulcate. St. 5-6 cm. x 2 mm., deep, or light yellow, 

 apex paler, rigid, tense and straight, equal, base attached to its sup- 

 port by yellow bristling filaments. Gills greyish, adnate, decurrent with 



