fc6 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Mycena clavicularis. Fr. 



Pileus |-f in. across, membranaceous ; convex then ex- 

 panded, somewhat umbonate at first, striate, dry, without a 

 distinct pellicle, disc at length depressed, whitish, yellowish 

 or brownish; gills adnate, narrow, white; stem about 2 in. 

 long, slender, tough, glabrous, viscid, whitish base fibrillose, 

 not rooting. 



Agaricus (Mycena) clavicularis, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 158 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 88 ; Cke., lllustr., pi. 208B. 



On the ground in woods. 



Allied to M, epipterygia, but distinguished by the perfectly 

 dry pileus. M. vulgaris and M. rorida are distinguished by 

 the viscid pileus. 



Mycena epipterygia. Scop. 



Pileus |-1 in. across, membranaceous ; campanulate, obtuse, 

 Taecoming more or less expanded, never truly depressed, striate, 

 covered with a pellicle that is very viscid in wet weather, and 

 easily separable in every condition, colour variable, usually 

 grey, often pale yellowish-green near the margin ; margin 

 often minutely notched when young ; gills adnate with a 

 decurrent tooth, thin, whitish or tinged grey; stem 2 4 in. 

 long, about 1 line thick, hollow, tough, often wavy, base 

 rooting and fibrillose, even, viscid, usually yellowish, but 

 sometimes grey, pallid, or whitish ; spores elliptical, 8-10 x 

 45 /A. 



Agaricus epipterygius, Scop., Curn., p. 453; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 88 ; Cke., lllustr., pi. 208A. 



On ^branches, twigs, among moss, &c. 



Solitary or clustered. Colour variable, but readily known 

 by the viscid pileus, both being furnished with a separable 

 pellicle. Often resembling M. alcalina in the greenish-yellow 

 colour of the pileus, but distinguished by the absence of smell. 



Pileus an inch or more broad and high, obtuse, sometimes 

 umbilicate, cinerous-yellow, but also occasionally, according 

 to Fries, white, bluish, or rufous, submembranaceous, the 

 margin striate and toothed ; epidermis viscid ; when moist 

 easily tearing off. Gills arcuato-adnate, subdecurrent, par- 

 taking of the colour of the pileus. Stem 3-4 inches high, 

 about 1 line thick, full yellow, viscid, smooth, tomentose at 

 the base. (Berk.) 



