MYCENA 383 



thickened below, more or less striate; base long, tapering, rooting. 

 Gills tinged purplish, or flesh colour, broadly sinuate behind, and 

 adnate with a decurrent tooth, ventricose, 4-6 mm. broad, rather 

 distant, thin. Flesh of si. purplish. Spores white, elliptical, 5 x 3'5/x, 

 with an oblique basal apiculus. Cystidia none. Solitary or sub- 

 caespitose. On trunks. Mixed woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



1218. M. psammicola B. & Br. Cke. lUus. no. 225, t. 186, upper figs. 



i/rayu,yu,o9, sand; colo, I inhabit. 



P. 49 mm., brown, becoming paler towards the margin, hygro- 

 phanous, somewhat hemispherical, sprinkled with very minute par- 

 ticles', margin striate. St. 1-2 cm. x 1 mm., white upwards, umber 

 downwards, firm, rooting, wholly white pulverulent. Gills white, shortly 

 adnate, sinuate behind, in the form of a segment. Smell strong, but 

 not nitrous. Amongst moss on a sandbank. Sept. Eare. 



1219. M. rugosa Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 225, t. 186, lower figs. 



Rugosa, wrinkled. 



P. 2-6 cm., cinereous, becoming pale, very tough, membranaceous, 

 campanulate, then expanded, at length rather plane, somewhat 

 obtuse, more or less corrugated, rugosely wrinkled, dry, striate at 

 the circumference. St. 3-8 cm. x 3-4 mm., pallid, very cartilaginous, 

 rigid, tough, straight, at length compressed, smooth, with a short, 

 oblique, strigose root. Gills white, then grey, arcuato-adnate, with a 

 decurrent tooth, united behind in a collar, broad, ventricose, con- 

 nected by veins, edge sometimes serrulate. Flesh whitish, thick at 

 the disc. Spores white, oblong elliptical, 9-11 x 6-7 ft, with a large 

 central gutta. Basidia with 2-4-sterigmata. Cystidia hyaline, broadly 

 clavate, or bludgeon-shaped, apex covered with short, simple, more 

 rarely branched setae, 24-50 x 10-12/A. On stumps and old posts. 

 July Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1220. M. sudora Fr. Sudor, sweat. 

 P. 2-5 cm., whitish, or yellowish, diaphanous, submembranaceous, 



convex, umbonate, often irregular, striate, viscid. St. 611 cm. x 

 3-6 mm., concolorous, equal, firm, dry, smooth, rooting. Gills white, 

 then flesh colour, obtusely adnate, broad, subdistant. Flesh white, thick 

 at the disc. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 9-11 x 7-8 /A. Cystidia 

 "small, little protruding, 24 x 8/z,, elliptical- vesiculose, mostly bluntly 

 conical, somewhat ventricose below and often oblique" v. Hoehnel. 

 On and near beech, and beech stumps. Aug. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1221. M. galericulata (Scop.) Fr. (= Mycena simillima Karst.) 



Galericulum, a cap. 



P. 2-5 cm., fuscous-livid, or changeable in colour, often becoming 

 yellow, or rubiginous, sometimes white, submembranaceous, conico- 

 campanulate, then expanded, striate to the umbo, dry, smooth. St. 



