MYCENA 375 



a tooth, linear, 2 mm. broad ; edge darker, saffron yellow. Flesh white, 

 thin. Spores white, elliptical, with a basal, or subbasal apiculus, 

 8-9 x 4-5 JM. Cystidia "content dark yellow, obovate or bludgeon- 

 shaped, prickly, warted, about 9-1 Ifj, broad" Lange. Coniferous 

 woods. July Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1192. M. atro-marginata Fr. (= Mycena balanina Berk. sec. Quel.) 

 Fr. Icon. t. 78, fig. 3. Ater, black; marginata, bordered. 



P. 1-53 cm., cinereous-fuscous, or purplish fuscous, paler at the 

 margin, very membranaceous, conical, then conico-campanulate, 

 1-5-3 cm. high, lax, deeply sulcate, smooth, slightly viscid when moist. 

 St. 4-10 cm. x 2-4 mm., concolorous, apex paler, strict, very fragile, 

 equal, or slightly attenuated upwards, sometimes twisted, sulcate', 

 base rooting, white tomentose. Gills whitish grey, then flesh colour, 

 slightly adnexed, attenuated behind, almost linear, narrow, 2-3 mm. 

 broad, subdistant, often slightly connected by veins; edge black, very 

 thin. Flesh white, purplish in the stem, thin. Spores white, oblong- 

 elliptic, 10-12 x 7/x, with a large central gutta. Pine woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1193. M. balanina Berk. (= Mycena atro-marginata Fr. sec. Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 216, t. 156, fig. 2. fiaXavos, an acorn. 



P. 2-4 cm., ochraceous with a slight tinge of umber, fleshy membrana- 

 ceous, convex, somewhat campanulate, obtusely umbonate, at length 

 more or less expanded, minutely pulverulent, slightly rugulose, striate 

 when moist. St. 6-7 cm. x 2-4 mm., white and pruinose above, deep 

 sienna-brown below, attenuated downwards, flexuose, rigid, shining, 

 quite smooth; base dark brown, villose. Gills pale, or whitish with a 

 pinkish tinge, quite free, rounded, 3 mm. broad, connected by veins, 

 edge fringed with dull purple spiculae, which are also sprinkled over the 

 surface. On beech mast, and amongst oak leaves. 



1194. M. rubro-marginata Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 78, fig. 4. 



Ruber, red; marginata, bordered. 



P. 12 cm., red-livid, or purple fuscous, becoming pale, sometimes 

 almost white, hygrophanous, membranaceous, campanulate, obtuse, 

 striate, smooth. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., pallid livid, rigid-fragile, 

 equal, often curved, smooth, base slightly thickened. Gills whitish, 

 then grey, adnate, with a small decurrent tooth, distant; edge fuscous 

 purple, then brown. Flesh whitish, thin. Spores white, boat-shaped, 

 12-13 x 3-4-5/z, 1-guttulate. Cystidia "claviform, pointed at the 

 free end, 50-60 x 10-16/u, filled with brownish juice" Barbier; "with 

 one or more sterigma-like projections on the top" Rick. Pine, and 

 larch woods. July Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



