412 GALERA. PSATHYRA 



somewhat slightly viscid, very hygrophanous, somewhat silky when dry, 

 margin appendiculato-toothed with the white veil when young. St. 

 4-7-5 cm. x 2 mm., pallid, becoming somewhat yellow, but silvery 

 shining, very fragile, ascending, or twisted, equal, fibrillosely striate, 

 apex somewhat pruinose. Gills ochraceous saffron, or pale yellowish, 

 somewhat free, broad, ventricose, distant. Flesh white, thick at the disc. 

 Spores ochraceous, " subfusif orm-elliptical, 8-9 x 4-5 /A, smooth" 

 Rick. Gregarious. Amongst chips, or rotten wood. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common. 



1323. G. mycenopsis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 129, fig. 1. 



Mycena a-tyis, like a Mycena. 



P. 6-20 mm., pallid honey colour, slightly fleshy membranaceous, 

 subglobose, then campanulate, at length convexo-plane, obtuse, or 

 gibbous with a broadly elevated disc, naked at the disc, striate and 

 silky to the middle with superficial, white, villose down', margin often 

 clothed with little white scales the remains of the veil. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 

 2-4 mm., yellowish, white silky with adpressed, villose down, attenuated 

 upwards, straight or undulated, soft, apex obsoletely pruinose, or 

 slightly furfuraceous, base white villose. Gills pallid, adnexed, then 

 free, so ventricose at the middle as almost to be triangular, distant. 

 Flesh greyish in the p., whitish in the St., thick at the disc. Spores 

 deep ochraceous, elliptical, 9-13 x 5-8jM. Cystidia bottle-shaped, 

 apex often globose, base ventricose, 46-52 x 15-18 x 6-10/z, at apex. 

 Sphagnum swamps and in woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1324. G. Sahleri Quel. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 13. Sahler. 

 P. 48 mm., tawny chestnut, honey colour when dry, disc brighter 



coloured, membranaceous, campanulate, often acutely conical, smooth, 

 hygrophanous, striate; margin at first covered with silky, fugacious 

 fibrils. St. 1-3 cm. x 1-2 mm., amber coloured, shining, filiform, fra- 

 gile, fibrillose. Gills cream colour, then tawny ochraceous, adnate, 

 1 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh yellowish, very thin. Spores tawny 

 ochre, oval, 9-11 x 6-7 p, with an apical germ-pore. On mossy 

 stumps, especially fir. May Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Spores purple, or fuscous. 

 Psathyra Fr. 



(^raQvpos, fragile.) 



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

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

 adnexed, or free. Spores purple, fuscous, or cinereous purple; ellip- 

 tical, oval, or oblong elliptical; smooth; with an apical germ-pore. 

 Cystidia present. Growing on the ground, or on wood; solitary, or 

 caespitose. 



