384 MYCENA 



5-12 cm. x 3-5 mm., concolorous, often becoming yellowish, or rubi- 

 ginous, somewhat fragile, polished, often curved, smooth; base strigose, 

 fusiform-rooted. Gills whitish, then flesh colour, adnate, decurrent with 

 a tooth, sometimes connected by veins. Flesh greyish, very thin at 

 the margin. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 10-11 x 6-8 /x, 1-guttu- 

 late. Basidia generally with 2-sterigmata only. Cystidia hyaline, 

 broadly clavate, or bludgeon-shaped covered with short setae, 

 15-40 x 9-12/1. Caespitose, the numerous stems often glued together 

 with villose down at the base. On stumps, trunks, and pollards. 

 Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. calopus Fr. (= Mycena inclinata Fr. sec. Lange.) Fr. Icon. t. 80, 



fig. 2. /caXo?, beautiful; TTOU?, foot. 



Differs from the type in the fasciculate, fusiform chestnut coloured 



stem. "P. viscid, gills cinereous becoming whitish, spores ovate 



globose, 8 x 6/4" Sacc. On stumps. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1222. M. simillima Karst. Simillima, very like. 

 P. livid, or dingy pattid, conico-campanulate, even, dry, glabrous. 



St. fragile, polished, even, glabrous, base curved, rooting. Gills white, 

 very slightly tinged with rose, emarginato-decurrent, crowded. Tree 

 stumps. Sept. Rare. 



1223. M. polygramma (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 228, t. 223. 



?roXv9, many; ypapfiij, a line. 



P. 2-5 cm., fuscous, cinereous, livid, or becoming light yellow, margin 

 white when young, submembranaceous, conical, then campanulate, 

 subumbonate, striate, smooth, rarely pruinose; margin often toothed. 

 St. 610 cm. x 2-4 mm., silvery, livid, blue grey, or becoming azure 

 blue, rigid, tense and straight, equal, longitudinally striato-sulcate, 

 base strigose-rooted. Gills white, or pinkish, attenuated behind, un- 

 cinate, subdistant, sometimes serrulate. Flesh greyish, very thin at 

 the margin. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 9-12 x 6-8 p, 1-2- 

 multi-guttulate. Basidia with 4-sterigmata. Cystidia hyaline, flask- 

 shaped, base ventricose, apex prolonged and attenuated upwards, 

 flexuose, simple or branched, 20-60 x 410 x 1 -5-3/1, at apex. Gre- 

 garious or solitary . On stumps and twigs. Aug. Feb. Common, (v.v.) 



1224. M. inclinata Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 234, t. 225, upper figs., as 

 Mycena alcalina Fr. Inclinata, bent in. 



P. 2-3 cm., fuscous, livid fuscous, or bistre, submembranaceous, 

 globose, then campanulate, obtuse, rarely gibbous, at length ex- 

 panded and depressed at the apex, smooth, striate to the disc, shining 

 when dry; margin at first white, exceeding the gills, delicately crenulate. 

 St. 6-10 cm. x 2-4 mm., whitish, or brownish, becoming fulvous from 

 the base upwards, slightly attenuated upwards, twisted, flexuose, apex 

 incurved at first, somewhat tough when young, then fragile, pruinosely 



