MYCENA. NOLANEA 401 



base inserted, rarely girt with radiating fibrils, apex becoming fuscous. 

 Gills adnate, /ew, broad, equal in length. Spores white, "obovate- 

 lanceolate, 7-5-9 x 3-3-7/A, or 9-11 x 3-3-7 p. Cystidia crowded, 

 obovate globular, set with wart-like setae " Lange. On dead leaves, 

 especially beech. Sept. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1281. M. juncicola Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 85, fig. 6. 



Juncus, a rush; colo, I inhabit. 



P. 2-3 mm., rufescent, or blood red, convex, striate, smooth. St. 

 12 x -5 mm., fuscous, filiform, inserted, smooth. Gills white, or yellow- 

 ish white, adnate, distant. On dead rushes in bogs, and twigs. June 

 July. Kare. 



Spores pink. 



Nolanea Fr. 



(Nola, a little bell.) 



Pileus fleshy, or submembranaceous, regular; margin straight, at 

 first adpressed to the stem. Stem central, cartilaginous. Gills adnate, 

 adnexed, or sinuato-adnate. Spores pink, angular, elliptical, or glo- 

 bose, smooth, or rough, continuous. Growing on the ground, rarely 

 on wood; solitary, or gregarious. 



*Gills grey or fuscous. P. dark coloured, hygrophanous. 



1282. N. pascua (Pers.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 96. Pascua, of pasture. 

 P. 28 cm., fuliginous when moist, hoary, or becoming pale fawn 



when dry, membranaceous, conical, then campanulate and more or 

 less expanded, striate when moist, silky shining when dry St. 3-8 cm. 

 x 2-6 mm., pallid fuliginous, or silvery tinged with smoke colour, equal, 

 or compressed, soft, silky-fibrous, striate. Gills grey, or whitish-fuligi- 

 nous, sprinkled with the rosy spores, very much attenuated behind, 

 almost free, crowded, thin, ventricose, or rather broader and obtuse 

 towards the margin. Flesh whitish, fuliginous when moist. Spores 

 pink, angular, oblong, 10-13 x 7-8^. Woods, pastures, and road- 

 sides. May Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



var. umbonata Quel. Quel. Jur. et Vosg. t. 6, fig. 5, as Nolanea mam- 



mosa Fr. Umbonata, having an umbo. 



Differs from the type in the umbonate, bay p., and fibrillosely striate, 



silvery st. Heaths, woods, and pastures. May Oct. Not uncommon. 



(v.v.) 



1283. N. proletaria Fr. (= Nolanea staurospora Bres. sec. Quel.; 

 Nolanea cetrata Schroet.) Boud. Icon. t. 95. Proletaria, poor. 



P. 1-5-4 cm., grey, disc umber and villose, submembranaceous, 

 scissile, campanulate, then expanded, very obtuse, striate at the margin 

 when moist. St. 4-10 cm. x 2-5 mm., fuliginous-grey, dirty white, or 



