MYCENA 395 



shorter. Flesh reddish, becoming whitish, very thin. Spores white, 

 elliptical, pip-shaped, or pyriform, 8-9 x 4 6/i, 1-2-guttulate. Cys- 

 tidia filled with a reddish juice, or colourless, flask-shaped, often pro- 

 longed at the base; apex long, conical, pointed, 35-50 x 6-8 x 1-2-5/u, 

 at apex. Gregarious or solitary. Amongst dead leaves in woods, 

 especially coniferous woods, and in hedgerows. May Dec. Common. 

 (v.v.) 



1259. M. crocata (Schrad.) Fr. Croatia, saffron yellow. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., olivaceous, cinereous, or shining white, umbonate disc 

 reddish, submembranaceous, conical, then campanulate, smooth; 

 margin striate. St. 7-12-5 x 2-3 mm., saffron-Uood-colour, especially 

 towards the rooting, creeping, fibrillose base, slightly attenuated up- 

 wards, apex whitish, containing a saffron-blood juice that readily 

 stains the rest of the fungus. Gills white, attenuato-adnexed, broader 

 in front, subventricose, subdistant. Flesh saffron-blood-colour, yellow- 

 ish in the centre of the St., thick at the disc. Spores white, broadly 

 elliptical, or pip-shaped, 9-11 x 6-7 /n, punctate. Basidia with 4- 

 sterigmata. Cystidia "club-shaped, or somewhat pyriform set with 

 minute wart-like setae, apex occasionally with a hair-shaped appendix" 

 Lange. On dead leaves, and twigs in woods, especially beech. Sept. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1260. M. galopus (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 244, t. 207. 



iyd\a, milk; TTOV?, foot. 



P. 615 mm., fuscous, or greyish, the indistinct umbo darker, mem- 

 branaceous, conical, then campanulate, striate, smooth, or pruinose. 

 St. 5-11 cm. x 1-2 mm., fuscous, or grey, apex white, firm, somewhat 

 fragile, smooth or pruinose; base thickened, white villose and rooting, 

 containing a milk white juice. Gills white, sometimes becoming glaucous, 

 attenuated behind, slightly adnexed, broader towards the margin of 

 the p. Flesh white, very thin. Spores white, oblong elliptic, 12-14 x 

 6-7 //,. Cystidia hyaline, subulate, fusiform; apex acute, simple or 

 forked, 30-90 x 10-12 x 2-5-3|u. at apex. Amongst dead leaves, on 

 twigs and stumps. Woods, hedgerows, and wood piles. July Jan. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



var. alba Fl. Dan. Alba, white. 



Differs from the type in being entirely white. In woods amongst 

 leaves. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. nigra Fl. Dan. (= Mycena leucogala Cke.) Cke. Illus. no. 1151, 

 t. 653, as Mycena leucogala Cke. Nigra, black. 



Differs from the type in the dark colour of all its parts. In woods, 

 on stumps, twigs, and leaves. Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



