MYCENA 379 



equal, smooth; base swollen, strigose. Gills white, or flesh coloured, 

 uncinato-adnexed, ascending, very thin, narrow, somewhat distant. 

 Flesh of pileus red, of st. white, very thin. Spores white, elliptical, 

 often with a basal apiculus, 7-8 x 4/u,, 1-3-guttulate. Basidia "2- 

 spored. Cystidia awl-shaped-conical, long, pointed, up to 60 p," 

 Lange. Woods and pastures. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1205. M. chlorantha Fr. (= Mycena wrens (Bull.) Quel.) Trans. 

 Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 7, as Mycena wrens (Bull.) Quel. 



%X&)/)05, grass green; avOos, flower. 



P. 10-15 mm., olive green, becoming paler, disc yellow, membrana- 

 ceous, conico-campanulate, 4-8 mm. high, then expanded, obtuse, 

 smooth, striate when moist. St. 2-5-10 cm. x 2-3 mm., bluish, 

 transparent, firm, straight, smooth, base white villose. Gills white 

 with a slight tinge of green, adnate, narrow, 2 mm. broad, subventri- 

 cose, thin, crowded. Flesh bluish in the st. Spores white, elliptical, 

 8-9 x 5-6/n, 1-guttulate, white in the mass, greenish by transmitted 

 light. Cystidia "only on the edge of the gill, rarely obtuse, obovate 

 oblong, generally fusiform, conical or bluntly pointed at the apex, 

 27-35 x 9-15/i" v. Hoehnel. Woods, and hedgerows. Aug. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1206. M. lineata (BuU.) Fr. Lineata, striate. 

 P. 6-15 mm., yellow, olivaceous, rarely whitish, generally becoming 



light yellow, very membranaceous, hood-shaped, then campanulate, 

 obtuse, lineato-sulcate to the disc, smooth. St. 4-7 cm. x 2-3 mm., 

 concolorous, equal, smooth, base white villose. Gills white, or pale 

 cream, adnate, linear, 2-3 mm. broad, subdistant. Flesh yellowish at 

 the disc, very thin at the margin. Spores white, pip-shaped, 7-8 x 4/u, 

 or elliptical, often slightly depressed on one side, 9-12 x 5-6 /z, often 

 1-guttulate, punctate. Cystidia pyriform, setulose, 20-25/A in diam. 

 Amongst moss. Woods, and pastures. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



var. expallens Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 78, fig. 5. Expallens, becoming pale. 

 P. 1-2 cm., pale yellow, campanulate, striate up to the disc. St. 

 5cm. x 1 mm., pallid; base white, downy. Gills white, linear, very 

 narrow, rather distant. Amongst moss. 



1207. M. farrea (Lasch) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 80, fig. 4, wrongly cited as 

 t. 79, fig. 4, in the text 1 . Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. i, t. 2, fig. 1, 

 surface cells of the pileus magnified. Farrea, mealy. 



P. 1-2 cm., whitish, or yellowish, often with a tinge of flesh colour, 

 membranaceous, campanulate, then expanded, subumbonate, sulcate, 

 covered with a shining pruina (" composed of globose, hollow bodies, 

 1 Plates 79 and 80 are interchanged in some copies of Fries' Icones. 



