MYCENA 377 



II. St. juiceless, base not dilated into a disc. Gills unicolorous, not 

 changing colour. P. pure coloured, bright, not becoming fuscous, nor 

 cinereous. 



1198. M. pura (Pers.) Fr. (= M ycena pseudopura Cke.) Pura, clean. 

 P. 28 cm., rose, purple, lilac, bluish-grey, or white, fleshy, cam- 



pamilate, then expanded, at length rather plane, sometimes um- 

 bonate; margin striate. St. 3 10 cm. x 2-6 mm., concolorous, or 

 whitish, tough, polished, equal, or attenuated upwards when larger, 

 smooth, base white villose. Gills pallid, or whitish, adnate, broad, 

 ventricose, connected by veins. Flesh white, thin at the margin. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 6-9 x 3-5-4/n, 1-2-guttulate. Cystidia on gill edge 

 only, hyaline, cylindrical, broadly fusiform, or bladder-like, obtuse, 

 more rarely somewhat pointed, becoming larger with age, 4560 x 

 11-20 x 5-10/x, at apex. Smell and taste of radish. Poisonous. 

 Woods and pastures. June Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. carnea Rea. Carnea, fleshy. 



Differs from the type in the fleshy, fibrillose st. Amongst oak and 



beech leaves in deciduous woods. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. multicolor Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 114. 



MuUus, many; color, colour. 



P. 3-5-5 cm., bright greyish blue, umbo fulvous. St. 5-7 cm. x 4- 

 8 mm., rosy purple, base becoming yellowish, white tomentose. Gills 

 grey. Spores white, elliptical, 5 x 3/i (7-9 x 4-5/A Bres.). Cystidia 

 cylindrical, or ventricosely fusiform, rarely subclavate. Amongst 

 leaves. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1199. M. zephirus Fr. (= Mycena spiripes (Schwartz) Sacc.) Fr. 

 Icon. t. 78, fig. 6. Ze^vpo?, the west wind. 



P. 2-3 cm., livid reddish, whitish flesh colour, or greyish, disc occa- 

 sionally becoming fuscous, diaphanous, submembranaceous, campanu- 

 late, then convex, striate to the middle. St. 3-8 cm. x 2-4 mm., lilac, 

 becoming rufescent, fragile, equal, or slightly attenuated upwards, 

 slightly striate, at first clad with deciduous, white scales; base incurved, 

 woolly. Gills white, or flesh coloured, adnate, subdecurrent with a 

 small tooth, at length separating, broad, slightly connected by veins. 

 Flesh pallid, thin at the margin. Spores white, pip-shaped, 7-9 x 4/u, 

 1-4-guttulate. Cystidia "obovate, globose, or clavate, 40-60 x 16- 

 25 ,u, crowned with 1-4-finger-like, often branched protuberances, 

 sometimes only toothed" v. Hoehnel. Gregarious. Amongst fir 

 needles, or decayed fir wood, and amongst dead leaves. Sept. Dec. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1200. M. Seynii Quel. Quel. Soc. bot. Fr. xxm, t. 2, fig. 9. M. de Seynes. 

 P. 1-2 cm., rosy vinous, disc greyish, pellucid, very thin, campanu- 



