MYCENA 389 



thin. Spores white, elliptical, 8 x 5/x, 1-2-guttulate. Cystidia fusi- 

 form. Smell of radishes. Pastures, and amongst short grass. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1239. M. peltata Fr. Peltata, having a shield. 



P. 1-5-3 cm., black fuscous when moist, grey when dry, membrana- 

 ceous, convex, soon exactly plane, disc orbicular, even, fiat, rather 

 umbilicate than umbonate; margin up-turned and becoming black 

 when dry, very closely striate. St. 4-5 cm. x 2 mm., livid, equal, rigid, 

 somewhat fragile, often flexuose, smooth. Gills grey, paler at the edge, 

 adnate, with a small decurrent tooth, ventricose. Flesh greyish t thick 

 at the disc. Spores white, elliptical, 8-10 x 4-6 /a. Cystidia "broadly 

 lanceolate, 40 x 12-1 5 jit, sometimes slightly capitate" Rick. Smell 

 none, or alkaline. Woods, and heaths. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 



1240. M. consimilis Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 1150, t. 1186. 



Consimilis, entirely similar. 



P. 2-5-3 cm., cinereous, umbo darker, membranaceous, conically 

 campanulate, umbonate, striate to the middle, smooth, opaque; 

 margin soon upturned, at length splitting. St. 23 cm. x 2 mm., paler 

 than the p., attenuated upwards, often compressed below, rather 

 rigid, dry, smooth. G-ills cinereous, adnexed, or nearly free, linear, 

 1-2 mm. broad, scarcely crowded. Flesh white, thick at the disc. 

 Spores white. Amongst grass. Sept. Rare. 



1241. M. aetites Fr. (= Mycena umbellifera (Schaefi.) Quel.) Fr. Icon. 

 t. 81, fig. 5. dertrj;?, the eagle-stone. 



P. 12 cm., fuscous grey, becoming pale, membranaceous, campanu- 

 late, then convex, sulcate to the broad, obtuse, prominent umbo, hygro- 

 phanous, smooth; extreme margin becoming black. St. 4-5 cm. x 

 2 mm., whitish, becoming fuscous downwards, shining, often com- 

 pressed, unequal, fragile, smooth. Gills white, grey at the sides, 

 adnate, subuncinate, thin, at first cohering in the form of a cottar, 

 beautifully reticulated by veins, linear, subdistant. Spores white, 

 elliptical, often with an oblique apiculus, 8-10 x 5-6/x. Cystidia 

 hyaline, flask-shaped, ventricose at the base ; apex prolonged, acute, 

 or obtuse, 25-50 x 6-8 x Ifj, at apex. Smell alkaline, or none. Taste 

 bitterish, or obsolete. Amongst moss, and short grass in woods and 

 upland pastures. June Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1242. M. stannea Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 82, fig. 2. Stannea, tin-colour. 

 P. 34 cm., grey when moist, tin colour and silky shining when dry, 



hygrophanous, membranaceous, campanulate, then flattened, obso- 

 letely umbonate, fragile, often rimose, smooth, pellucidly striate when 

 moist. St. 5-8 cm. x 2-4 mm., grey, becoming pale, slightly rigid, 



