380 MYCENA 



40-50 fi " Plowright) ; margin light yellow, or flesh colour, becoming 

 whitish when dry, at first floccose, crenulate. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., 

 white, somewhat fragile, equal, silky-striate, often somewhat rooting. 

 Gills white, adnate, thin, somewhat crowded, connected by veins, often 

 fimbriate. Flesh white, thick at the disc. Amongst moss and heather 

 on heaths. Sept. Rare. 



1208. M. luteo-alba (Bolt.) Fr. Luteus, yellow; alba, white. 

 P. 6-10 mm., yellow, somewhat shining, not becoming pale, mem- 



branaceous, acutely campanulate, umbonate when expanded, slightly 

 pellucidly striate, smooth. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 2 mm., canary yellow, or 

 yellowish, equal, subflexuose, tough, smooth, base subfibrillose. Gills 

 shining white, adnate, somewhat uncinate, at first joined behind, 

 broad, alternate. Spores white, "elliptical, 6-8 x 3-5-4-5/u," Schroeter. 

 Cystidia "scattered, conical, often crowned with threadlike pro- 

 tuberances, 22-36 x 9-12/z, or slightly ventricose, conical, numerous, 

 obtuse, 16-21 x 7-9/x," v. Hoehnel. Amongst moss. Pine woods. 

 Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1209. M. flavo-alba Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 80, fig. 5, wrongly cited as t. 79, 

 fig. 5, in text. Flavus, light yellow; alba, white. 



P. 1-2 cm., ochraceous, light yellow-white, or wholly white, submem- 

 branaceous, campanulate, then convex, at length flattened, um- 

 bonate, smooth, often striate, scalloped when dry and rimosely split. 

 St. 2-3 cm. x 2 mm., pellucidly white, or with a yellowish tinge, slightly 

 rigid, fragile, tense and straight, equal, apex pruinose. Gills white, 

 adnato-decurrent, soon separating-free, at length plane, ventricose, 

 distant. Flesh white, thick at the disc. Spores white, elliptical, 

 6-8 x 3-4/x, 1-guttulate. Cystidia flask-shaped, apex subulate, 3-4/z 

 in diam., ventricose at the base, 35-55 x 12-15/x. Pastures, heaths, 

 and woods. July Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1210. M. chelidonia Fr. 1 (= Mycena pumila (Sow.) Quel.; Mycena 

 raeborhiza (Lasch) Gill.) Fr. Icon. t. 83, fig. 4, as Mycena rae- 

 borhiza Lasch. ^e\i8(av, a swallow. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., yellow flesh colour, or somewhat tawny, becoming paler 

 flesh colour, or whitish at the margin, submembranaceous, campanu- 

 late, conical, fragile, pruinose, pellucidly striate when moist, even when 

 dry. St. 3-5 cm. x 2 mm., pallid, or becoming yellow, equal, tough, 

 rooting, smooth, apex mealy, base villose. Gills whitish, becoming 

 yellowish, or flesh colour, adnate, or somewhat free, subdistant, at 

 length connected by veins. Flesh yellowish, thin at the margin. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 3 x 1-5-2^, 1-guttulate ("subglobose, 6-8 /x, 

 or 6-7 x 5-6/t" Gill.). Beech, and alder stumps. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



1 Friea placed this species in the section having milk, or a coloured juice in the 

 St., but this factor is so slight that the fungus is far better ranged in this position. 



