390 MYCENA 



not very fragile, sometimes compressed, smooth, shining. Gills 

 whitish grey, adnate, with a small decurrent tooth, connected by veins, 

 scarcely crowded. Flesh pallid, thin at the margin. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 8-10 x 4-5/i. Cystidia " flask-shaped-fusif orm, 45-50 x 

 10-18 fj,, blunt, sometimes capitate" Eick. Smell, like fresh trout, or 

 none. Amongst grass in woods. June Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1243. M. vitrea Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 82, fig. 1. Vitrea, glassy. 

 Very fragile. P. 1-2-5 cm., fuscous, then livid or bluish grey, mem- 



branaceous, campanulate, obtuse, entirely lineato-striate, opaque, 

 smooth, dry. St. 5-10 cm. x 1 mm., whitish, hyaline, equal, smooth, 

 glistening, striate under a lens, base fibrillose. Gills whitish, adnate, 

 linear, subdistant. Flesh fuscous in the p., very thin. Spores white, 

 "oblong oval, 10 x 4-5 JLI. Cystidia nearly globose, with short spines 

 in circles, 45 /z broad" v. Hoehnel. In woods amongst Sphagnum. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



1244. M. tennis (Bolt.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 237, t. 160, lower figs. 



Tenuis, thin. 



Very fragile, caespitose, white. P. 1-2 cm., hyaline, or becoming 

 fuscous white, very membranaceous, campanulato-convex, obtuse, 

 lineato-striate, smooth; margin slight, beautifully fringed in a crenate 

 manner, as if appendiculate with the fragments of the veil. St. 7-8 cm. 

 x 1-2 mm., hyaline, base becoming yellowish, membranaceous, pellucid, 

 tense and straight, smooth. Gills adnate, with a small decurrent tooth 

 which is often obsolete, linear, rather thick, comparatively distant, 

 soft. Spores white, subglobose, 4 x 3p,, with a large central gutta. 

 Woods, and pastures. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



V. St. filiform, scarcely a line thick (and not more), flaccid, somewhat 

 tough, rooting, dry, juiceless, commonly very long in proportion 

 to the p. Gills paler at the edge and changing colour. Very slender, 

 tense and straight, terrestrial, and amongst moss, inodorous, solitary. 

 P. fuscous, becoming somewhat pale, not hygrophanous, in the last 

 species orange. 



1245. ML filopes (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 238, t. 161, upper figs. 



Filum, a thread; pes, foot. 



P. 1-1-5 cm., livid fuscous, or livid grey, rarely whitish, very mem- 

 branaceous, conical then campanulate, obtuse, striate, dry, smooth. 

 St. 7-9 cm. x 1-2 mm., livid, or becoming fuscous, filiform, tense and 

 straight, flaccid, not very tough, equal, rooting with a long pilose tail, 

 filled with a watery juice when in full vigour. Gills white, at length 

 grey at the base, free, or only reaching the St., ventricose, or lanceolate, 

 crowded. Flesh whitish, thin at the margin. Spores white, elliptical, 



