398 MYCENA 



Flesh white, thin at the margin. Spores white, "broadly elliptical, 

 8-8-5 x Ip, or 6-8 x 4/u, (Britz.)" Sacc. Cystidia "filiform-clavate, 

 or fusiform, 30-40 x 5-6 /u," Rick. Gregarious. On pine needles, 

 and wood. Oct. Rare. 



var. Candida Fr. Candida, shining white. 



Differs from the type in being shining white, and becoming yellow 

 when dry. 



1269. M. rorida Fr. Quel. Jur. et Vosg. t. 4, fig. 4. Rorida, bedewed. 

 Entirely white, or with a greyish tinge, but varying with the p. becoming 



yellow. P. 3-8 mm., membranaceous, conico-campanulate, then con- 

 vex, dry, sulcate when moist, even when dry; margin crenate. St. 

 1-3 cm. x 1 mm., filiform, covered over with a thick, fluid, hyaline 

 gluten, base inserted. Gills arcuate, decurrent, distant, the alternate 

 ones shorter. Flesh whitish, very thin. Spores white, oblong-elliptic, 

 8-12 x 4-5 p. Cystidia "in dense, large groups, slightly conical, often 

 somewhat ventricose, 18-25 x 6 9/x, or threadlike, obtuse, slightly 

 ventricose, 22-25 x 6-7 /n" v. Hoehnel. On twigs, in woods, hedge- 

 rows, and wood heaps. May Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



VIII. St. dry, rootless, the base naked, and dilated into a disc, or 

 strigose and swollen into a little bulb. Tender, solitary, becoming 

 flaccid. 



1270. M. stylobates (Pera.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 248, t. 249, fig. A. 



a-TV\o<f, a pillar; /8a<m, a pedestal. 



Entirely white, sometimes grey. P. 410 mm., membranaceous, cam- 

 panulate, then convex, pellucidly striate, striae often dichotomous, 

 generally sprinkled with spreading hairs. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 1 mm., fili- 

 form, equal, smooth, dry, arising from a round, striate, white-villose 

 disc. Gills free, wholly separate behind, ventricose, broader in front, 

 distant, alternate. Flesh white, very thin. Spores white, elliptical, 

 4 x 2/x, ("7-9 x 3-5-4-5/Lt" Sacc.). Cystidia "on the edge of the 

 gills hair-shaped " Schroet. On twigs, and leaves. June Nov. Com- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



1271. M. dilatata Fr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vi, t. 7. 



Dilatata, spread out. 



Wholly white. P. 5-10 mm., membranaceous, convexo-plane, ob- 

 tuse, smooth; margin striate. St. 10-15 x 1 mm., filiform, straight, 

 arising from a convex, smooth, glabrous, orbicular disc. Gills -5-1 mm. 

 wide, sublinear, attached to a free collar behind. Flesh white, thin. 

 Spores white, oblong, obtuse at both ends, 7-8 x 3-5/Lt. Cystidia 

 hyaline, clavate, obtuse, or produced into an acute point, 70-80 x 

 5-7 /x. Dead twigs and leaves in woods and hedgerows. Sept. Dec. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



