378 MYCENA 



late, then convex, silky. St. 35 cm. x 2 mm., hyaline white, be- 

 coming purplish, often flattened, bristling with white hairs at the 

 base. Gills rose, or lilac, adnate by a tooth, distant, reticulately con- 

 nected by veins, firm. Spores white, punctate, elliptical, 7-13 [JL, 

 barrel-shaped. Smell none, taste like turnips. Fasciculate. Pine 

 cones. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



1201. M. flavipes Quel. (= Mycena Renati Quel.) Quel. Jur. et Vosg. 

 ii, t. 1, fig. 4. Flavus, light yellow; pes, foot. 



P. -5-2 cm., rosy pink, or violaceous, disc brownish, membranaceous, 

 campanulate, striate, pellucid, smooth, wrinkled when dry. St. 

 25 cm. x 12 mm., yellow amber, pellucid, tough, curved, shining, 

 villose base swollen. Gills white, then flesh colour, adnate with a tooth, 

 distant, connected by veins. Flesh yellow in the st., very thin. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 11-12 x 6-7 /*, punctate. Cystidia "only on the edge 

 of the gill, very numerous, threadlike above, long and ventricose 

 below, 26-35 x 10-lQp" v. Hoehnel. Smell faint, of radish. On fir 

 branches, and stumps. June Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1202. M. clavus (Linn.) Rea. (= Mycena rubella Quel.) Boud. Icon. 

 t. 68, as Mycena rubella Quel. Clavus, a nail. 



P. 512 mm., orange scarlet, disc often darker, fleshy, conico-convex, 

 then plane, umbo acute, diaphanous, smooth; margin pale, striate. 

 St. 2-4 cm. x 2 mm., white, hyaline, with a fugacious, rosy tint at 

 the apex, equal, smooth, base woolly. Gills white, then rose colour, 

 edge paler, adnexed. Flesh of p. red. of st. white, very thin. Spores 

 white, elliptical, or pip-shaped, 6-7 x 3-4/z, multigranular. Cystidia 

 "only on the edge of the gill, sparse, rigid and threadlike above, 

 ventricose below, 28-32 x 10/x," v. Hoehnel. On twigs, leaves, and 

 amongst mosses. Aug. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1203. M. coccinea (Sow.) Quel. Coccinea, scarlet colour. 

 P. 5-12 mm., rosy-red, somewhat orange, membranaceous, cam- 

 panulate, striate; margin incurved, wrinkled. St. 2-3 cm. x 1 mm., 

 rose colour, equal, smooth ; base subbulbose, white strigose. Gills rosy, 

 emarginate. Flesh of p. red, whitish or yellowish in the st., very thin. 

 Spores white, pip-shaped, or elliptical, with a basal apiculus, 8-10 x 

 5-6 /A. Cystidia hyaline, flask-shaped, ventricose, apex pointed, or 

 obtuse, often constricted at about one-third of its length from the 

 apex, 25-35 x 7-10 x 3-5/z at apex. On larch cones, twigs and 

 needles. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1204. M. Adonis (Bull.) Fr. Adonis, son of Cinyras, king of Cyprus. 

 P. 610 mm., rose-red, margin whitish, membranaceous, campanu- 

 late, 6-8 mm. high, minutely and almost obsoletely papillate, smooth, 

 pellucidly striate. St. 35 cm. x 1 mm., shining white, pellucid, fiexuose, 



