394 MYCENA 



VI. St. and gills exuding a milky, usually coloured juice 

 when broken. St. dry, rooting. 



1256. M. hematopus (Pers.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 83, fig. 1. 



alpa, blood; Troy?, foot. 



P. 2-4 cm., greyish, or white flesh colour with a purplish tinge, disc 

 bistre, fleshy-membranaceous, conical, then campanulate, obtuse, 

 smooth; margin denticulate, slightly striate. St. 5-10 cm. x 2-5 mm., 

 white, greyish, flesh colour, or violaceous, becoming cinereous, rigid, 

 fragile, recurved, white pruinose, becoming smooth, containing a 

 blood-like juice, base strigose. Gills white, then flesh colour, or viola- 

 ceous, adnate, often with a small decurrent tooth, the alternate ones 

 shorter. Flesh turning blood red, thick at the disc. Spores white, 

 broadly elliptical, 10 x 6/u, rounded at both ends, with a large central 

 gutta. Cystidia "conical, sharp pointed, often ventricose below, 

 45 x 15/n, or rigid, long, threadlike and pointed above, ventricose 

 below, 40-45 x 12/z, contents colourless, seldom reddish" v. Hoehnel. 

 Caespitose. On trunks, and stumps, especially birch. Aug. Dec. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



var. marginata Lange. Marginata, bordered. 



Differs from the type in the dark edge of the gills. Cystidia "drawn 

 out to a sharp point, below the middle fusiformly inflated, 10-1 7 \L 

 broad, their free portion 45 ju, long, contents pale brownish red " Lange. 

 On stacked birch logs. Oct. Probably not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1257. M. craenta Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 83, fig. 2. Cruenta, bloody. 

 P. 6-20 mm., bay brown, or fuscous, then red, becoming pale, sub- 



membranaceous, conical, then campanulate, obtuse, striate, smooth. 

 St. 5-8 cm. x 2 mm., paler than the p., slightly firm, tense and straight, 

 smooth, containing a dark red juice, base villose-rooted. Gills whitish, 

 or pinkish, adnate, linear, crowded. Flesh dark red, thin. Spores 

 white, broadly elliptical, 9-10 x 6/n, with a large central gutta. 

 Cystidia "on gill edge only, contents granular, 35 x 9 x 2/z at apex" 

 v. Hoehnel. Generally solitary . Pine woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



1258. M. sangninolenta (A. & S.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 83, fig. 3. 



Sanguinolenta, bloody. 



P. 420 mm., pallid reddish, becoming fuscous, umbo and striae com- 

 monly darker, very membranaceous, campanulato-convex, or hemi- 

 spherical, papillate, smooth. St. 5-12-5 x 1-2 mm., pallid, flaccid, 

 weak, almost capillary, moderately tough, smooth, containing a pale 

 reddish juice, base subfibrillose. Gills whitish, or paler than the p., 

 edge black purple, adnate, linear, subdistant, the alternate ones 



