MYCENA 393 



4-6/i" Berk. Cystidia on gill edge "lanceolate subulate, 50-60 x 

 10-13/z" Rick. In woods, amongst grass, and on oak bark. Oct. 

 Nov. Uncommon. 



1253. M. speirea Fr. (= Omphalia speirea (Fr.) Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 78, 

 fig. 2. tnrelpa, a coil. 



P. 4-10 mm., pallid cinereous, or whitish variegated with fuscous 

 striae, umbo fuscous, membranaceous, conico-convex, then plane, at 

 length depressed at the disc, smooth, sometimes pruinose. St. 5 cm. x 

 1 mm., white, base becoming fuscous and ending in a tail-like flbrillose 

 root, tough, filiform, equal, smooth, shining. Gills shining white, 

 adnate, then deeply decurrent, distant, the alternate ones shorter. 

 Flesh white, thin at the margin. Spores white, "globose, 6/x, or broadly 

 elliptical, 6-9 x 4-6/x. Cystidia numerous, cylindrical, conical, gene- 

 rally sharp pointed, full of small oil globules, on the edge of the gill, 

 60 x 20/A, on the surface, 85 x 20jn, or cylindrical, conical, with 

 protruding points, 40 x 20 /JL" v. Hoehnel. Woods, and mossy trunks. 

 Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 



1254. M. tenella Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 241, t. 190, middle figs. 



Tenella, rather tender. 



Entirely white, or livid flesh colour, caespitose. P. 5-12 mm., mem- 

 branaceous, very tender, campanulato-convex, obtuse, pellucid; mar- 

 gin slightly striate. St. 2 cm. x 1 mm., filiform, soft, smooth, base 

 villose. Grills white, then flesh colour, uncinate, very thin, crowded. 

 Flesh white, very thin. Spores white, elliptical, 8-9 x 4-5 p,, minutely 

 punctate. Cystidia "on the edge, in several rows, globose, 16-23 /n, 

 crowned with numerous, short spines" v. Hoehnel. On felled trunks, 

 and twigs in wood heaps. Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1255. M. acicula (Schaeff.) Fr. (= Mycena coccinea (Scop.) Sacc.) 



Acicula, a small pin. 



P. 2-10 mm., vermilion-orange, membranaceous, campanulate, then 

 convex, with a very small slightly fleshy unibo, striate, smooth, shining. 

 St. 2-5 cm. x 1 mm., bright yellow, becoming pale, filiform, rooting, 

 smooth, shining, apex somewhat pruinose, base villose. Gills yellow, 

 becoming whitish at the edge, or wholly white, rounded-adnexed, almost 

 free, comparatively broad, ventricose, somewhat ovate, distant, the 

 alternate ones shorter. Flesh reddish in the p., very thin. Spores 

 white, oblong-fusiform, 9-12 x 2-4/u,, attenuated at the base, 1- 

 guttulate. Cystidia hyaline, flask-shaped, base ventricose or fusiform ; 

 apex acute, obtuse, or subglobose; 25-30 x 8-12 x 2-4/x at apex. 

 On dead leaves and twigs in woods and hedgerows. May Dec. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



