376 MYCENA 



var. fusco-purpurea (Lasch) Cke. Fuscus, brown; purpurea, purple. 



Differs from the type in the purple brown p., the finely striate st. 

 villosely rooting at the base, and the eroded, brown edge of the gills. 

 Willow trunks, and amongst dead leaves. Sept. Uncommon. 



1195. M. strobilina Fr. o-rpo/StXtvo?, belonging to a pine cone. 



P. 6-12 mm., persistently scarlet, often paler at the circumference, 

 membranaceous, conical, then campanulate, acutely umbonate, slightly 

 striate, smooth, dry. St. 3-5 cm. x 1-2 mm., concolorous, slightly 

 rigid, equal, smooth, base white strigose. Gills rosy red, adnate, de- 

 current with a tooth, distant, alternate ; edge darker, deep blood colour. 

 Flesh reddish, very thin at the margin. Spores white, elliptical, 

 7-9 x 4-4-5/A, 1-guttulate. Cystidia " on edge of gill elongate-vesicu- 

 lose, 45-50 x 15-18/x" Rick. Gregarious. On pine needles, occa- 

 sionally in beech woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1196. M. rosella Fr. (= Mycena rosea (Pers.) Sacc.) 



Rosella, somewhat rose-coloured. 



Rose colour, becoming pale. P. 7-10 mm., membranaceous, cam- 

 panulate, then hemispherical, obtusely umbonate, slightly hygro- 

 phanous, striate. St. 2-3-5 cm. x 1 mm., equal, soft, base white 

 tomentose. Gills rose colour, adnate, with a tooth, subdistant, edge 

 blackish purple. Flesh white, reddish in the st., very thin at the margin. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 7-8 x 4/u,. Cystidia "obovate or bludgeon- 

 shaped, 42 x 7-15ju,, occasionally the apex drawn out, somewhat 

 bottle-neck-like, the free portion more or less warted, filled with a 

 reddish or pinkish juice" Lange and Schroeter. On coniferous needles. 

 June Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1197. M. atrovirens Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vi, t. 7. 



Ater, black; virens, green. 



P. 8 mm., blackish green, paler and whitish at the striate margin, 

 bright green at the circumference, slightly fleshy, hemispherical, smooth, 

 somewhat viscid on the disc at first. St. 3 cm. x 1 mm., cinereous, 

 or greyish fuliginous, equal, smooth. Gills whitish, green and minutely 

 toothed on the edge especially towards the margin of the p., adnate, 

 2 mm. broad, subdistant, attenuated in front. Flesh fuscous, thin. 

 Smell and taste none. Spores white, elliptical, or pip-shaped, often 

 with an oblique apiculus, 5-6 x 3/u,, minutely punctate; basidia 

 clavate, 23-25 x 6-7 p,, with 4-sterigmata. Cystidia on edge of gill 

 abundant, often fasciculate, slightly clavate, or cylindrical, 35-40 x 

 3-4 /A, flexuose, filled with a greenish juice, thin walled. Beech stumps. 

 Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



