396 MYCENA 



VII. St. juiceless, glutinous, or viscid. Gills at length 

 decurrent with a tooth. 



1261. M. epipterygia (Scop.) FT. Cke. Illus. no. 245, t. 208, upper figs. 



67T4, upon; Trrepvyiov, a little wing. 



P. 1-3 cm., cinereous, grey, or yellow, becoming whitish, membrana- 

 ceous, campanulate, then more or less expanded, striate, covered with 

 a viscid, separable pellicle; margin often denticulate. St. 5-8 cm. x 

 1-2 mm., yellow, sometimes cinereous, pallid, or whitish, covered with 

 a viscid separable pellicle, equal, tough, often flexuose ; base rooted, 

 white fibrillose. Gills white, adnate with a decurrent tooth, straight, 

 or slightly arcuate, little crowded. Flesh white, very thin. Spores 

 white, oblong elliptic, 8-11 x 4-5 /x,, 1-guttulate. Cystidia only on 

 gill edge, subglobose, 10-13/x, setulose, soon fugacious. "None" 

 Lange. Smell none, or of rancid fat. Woods, pastures, and on leaves, 

 and twigs. Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1262. M. viscosa (Seer.) R. Maire. Viscosa, viscid. 

 P. 2-3 cm., whitish, pearl grey, then greyish brown, and finally reddish 



brown, hygrophanous, membranaceous, campanulate, then expanded, 

 striate, covered with a viscid separable pellicle. St. 5-8 cm. x 1-2 mm., 

 citron yellow, or golden, equal, viscid, apex whitish; base white fibrillose. 

 Gills whitish, then greyish or flesh colour, adnate with a more or less 

 decurrent tooth, slightly arcuate, narrow, little crowded. Flesh 

 whitish, becoming reddish brown with age, thin. Spores white, shortly 

 elliptic, 8-12 x 6-8/n, 1-multi-guttulate. Cystidia none. Smell of 

 rancid fat. On needles, and rotten stumps in coniferous woods. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1263. M. epipterygioides Pearson. 



Epipterygia etSo?, like the species M. epipterygia. 

 P. 1-2 cm., greenish yellow, disc darker, membranaceous, persistently 

 hemispherical, depressed at the centre, viscid pellicle separable; 

 margin striate, or sulcate, often crenate. St. 5-8 cm. x 1-2 mm., 

 greenish, usually with reddish stains at the base, cylindrical, or com- 

 pressed, hollow, viscid. Gills white, then delicate greenish yellow, adnate, 

 with a decurrent tooth, subdistant, with intermediate shorter ones. 

 Spores white, broadly elliptical, 9-10 x 7'5-8/x, contents granular. 

 Basidia 30 x 6*5 /u,, with two prominent sterigmata. Cystidia on edge 

 of gill brush-like; on gill face none. Damp places in pine woods. 

 Oct. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1264. M. plicato-crenata Fr. (= Mycena plicata (Schaefl.) Quel.) Fr. 

 Icon. t. 84, fig. 2. Plicata, folded; crenata, crenate. 



P. 6-10 mm., white, becoming yellow, membranaceous, conical, sub- 

 umbonate, very sulcato-plicate, somewhat viscid ; margin crenate. St. 

 4 cm. x 1-2 mm., pallid reddish, filiform, smooth, viscid. Gills white, 



