SS FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Pileus ^-1 in. broad, campanulate or convex, ochraceous, 

 the centre blackish (varying somewhat in colour), pellucid, 

 striate. Gills white, arcuato-adnate or even decurrent. Stein 

 2-3 inches high, about 1 line thick, pale umber, the base 

 somewhat looting, fibrilloso-tomentose or even strigose, 

 fistnlrsp, not brittle. Milk mild. Taste like that of radishes. 

 Subject to some variation in size and form and colour, but 

 known by its white milk. (Berk.) 



Mycena chelidonia. Sow. 



Pileus about 5-7 lines across, fles-h very thin ; campanulate 

 then convex, obtuse, nearly even ; gills adnate, rather distant, 

 distinct, narrow, white then tinged yellow; stem up to 2 in. 

 long, thin, equal, smooth, rooting, with a small quantity of 

 yellow juice, often compressed; spores 9-10 X 5 fi. 



Agaricus chelidonius, Sowerby, t. 385 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 87 ; 

 ke., Illnstr., pi. 207A (after Sowerby). 



On beech stumps. 



D ; stinguished by the yellow juice present in small 

 quantity in the stem. 



On dead beech trunks, somewhat caespitose; with the 

 haHt of ihe yellowish form of M. alcalina, to which it is 

 allied. Stem hollow, lJ-2 in. long, about 1 line thick, rather 

 fiim, even, glabrous, yellowish, containing a small quantity 

 of yellowish milk, the rooting base downy. Pileus almost 

 membranaceotis, campanulate then convex, obttu-e 1-1 in. 

 broad, glabrous, pellucidly striate when moist, eve"n and 

 opaque when dry, flesh-colour with a yellow tinge, edge 

 quite entire; gills adnate, rather distant, distinct, whitish 

 or yellowish- white. (Fries.) 



Mycena crocata. Fr. 



Pileus 1-1 in. across, almost membranaceous, conical then 

 canipannlHte, disc even, umbonate, reddish, olive, greyish, 

 or whitish towards the striate margin, edge quite entire ; 

 gilt narrow behind and adnexed, rather distant, broadest in 

 front, somewhat ventricose, white ; stem 3-5 in. long, hollow, 

 slightly attenuated from the base, glabrous, saffron-red, due 

 to the copious amount of milk of this colour which pours out 

 when the stem is wounded, especially at the downy rooting 



