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brownish -grey, opaque when dry. Gills adnate without a 

 decurrent tooth, thick, distant, connected by veins, grey, at 

 length whitish pruinose. Appears to be nearest to M. rnetata, 

 which differs in the soft, lax stem and almost even pileus. 

 (Fries.) 



Mycena paupercula. Berk. 



Strong-scented. Fileus 1-2 lines across, flesh thin ; 

 obtusely conical or hemispherical, very minutely innately 

 ifibiillose, ochraceous- white ; gills free then adnexed, whitish ; 

 stem ^ in. and more long, slender, equal, whitish, rooting 

 and downy at the base. 



Afjaricus (Mycena) pauperculus, Berk., Outl., p. 125; Cke., 

 Hdb'k., p. 82 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 236A. 



Inside decayed stumps. 



Minute, ochraceous- white. Pileus 1 line broad, pale 

 ochraceous-white, in age almost tawny. When moist the 

 gills shine through, giving a striate appearance, but not 

 always. (Berk.) 



Distinguished among the minute species by the rather 

 strong, sweet scent, and rooting stem. 



M. psammicola differs in the wholly whitish-pulverulent 

 tstem, and in having particles sprinkled over the pileus. 



Pileus 1 line broad, fleshy, for the size of the plant firm, 

 scarcely membranaceous, obtusely conic or hemispherical, 

 most minutely but decidedly innato-fibrillose, pale ochra- 

 ceous-white, in age almost tawny, probably stained by 

 the wood on which it grows. When moist the gills shine 

 through, giving it a stiiate appearance, but not always. 

 Gills white, adnexed by reason of the growth of the pileus ; 

 in youth they are really free. Sporules white, round. Stem 

 j 1 in. high, ^ a line thick, white, curved, rooting, the root 

 villous, minutely stuffed, smooth, even, under a high magni- 

 fying power, powdered at the top with the sporules, generally 

 thicker below. Odour farinaceous. Allied to A. alcalinus, 

 but I think distinct from all its small varieties. For it is 

 much more fleshy, and seems to have no tendency to be 

 coloured like that species. (Berk.) 



Mycena atrocyanea. Batsch. 



Pileus up to i in. across, flesh thin, grey ; fragile, inodorous, 

 campanulately convex, umbonate, sulcate, brownish, theu 

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