MYCENA 391 



8-10 x 4-5 //,. Basidia with 2-4-sterigmata. Cystidia on gill edge, 

 hyaline, crowded, forming a compact layer, obovate, or pyriform, 

 minutely setulose towards the apex, 20-48 x 16-32 /JL. Amongst dead 

 leaves in deciduous woods, hedgerows and plantations. Aug. Jan. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



1246. M. amicta Fr. (= Mycena Iris Berk. sec. Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 82, 

 fig. 3. Amicta, clothed. 



P. 6-12 mm., green, bluish grey, or livid, membranaceous, conico- 

 campanulate, slightly pellucidly striate to the disc, covered with fuga- 

 cious pruina. St. 6-8 cm. x 1-2 mm., livid, equal, flexile, covered with 

 a delicate white pruina] base straight, or with a long tortuose root, 

 smooth. Gills grey, edge paler, free, or only reaching the st., linear, 

 narrow, crowded. Flesh fuscous, thin at the disc. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 4-5 p,, 1-2-guttulate. Basidia with 2-sterigmata. 

 Cystidia hyaline, flask-shaped, apex acutely conical, 20 x 6/z. 

 Amongst mosses in woods, and pastures. Sept. Nov. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1247. M. Iris Berk. (= Mycena amicta Fr. sec. Quel.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 238, t. 161, lower figs. Ipts, the rainbow. 



P. 10-15 mm., grey, becoming yellowish, membranaceous, hemi- 

 spherical, obtuse, covered with blue, evanescent fibrils, viscid; margin 

 denticulate. St. 4-9 cm. x 2-3 mm., grey, equal, covered with evan- 

 escent blue fibrils, which are often only apparent at the base. Gills 

 grey, edge becoming pale, free, or slightly adnexed, linear, edge some- 

 times denticulate. Flesh greyish, thick at the disc. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 6-8 x 3-4 /x. Cystidia "crowded, conical, threadlike, ob- 

 tuse, 20 x 4-4-5 /i" v. Hoehnel. On fir stumps, and sticks. Sept. 

 Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. caerulea Rea. Caerulea, azure blue. 



Differs from the type in the pure blue colour of the p., in the absence 

 of blue fibrillae on the p. and st., and in the white pulverulent apex of 

 the st. Spores white, elliptical, with an oblique apiculus, 8-9 x 5/x. 

 Inside a hollow tree. May. Rare, (v.v.) 



1248. M. urania Fr. Ovpavia, the Heavenly One. 

 P. 6-10 mm.-, dark blue, then becoming violaceous, and at length 



pallid lilac, rarely becoming fuscous, membranaceous, campanulate, 

 then hemispherical, obtuse, striate, dry, smooth. St. 5-8 cm. x 

 1-2 mm., dark blue, then becoming somewhat azure blue, equal, flexile, 

 flaccid, smooth, slightly rooting; base white floccose. Gills white, 

 uncinato-adnate, thin. Amongst alder leaves, Jungermanniae, and 

 twigs in damp woods. July Sept. Rare. 



