MYCENA. 101 



Smell alkaline, weak or entirely absent; pileus usually 

 grey when inoist, sometimes reddish-pink, pallid, &c. 



Among moss in pastures, also in pine woods ; gregarious 

 but never caespitose. Smell weak, alkaline, often entirely 

 absent. In other respects differing widely from M. ammoniaca, 

 M. alcalina, and M, leptocephala in the soft and flaccid 

 substance, and in the hygrophanous pileus readily becoming 

 pale and discoloured. (Fries.) 



Mycena peltata. Fr. 



Pileus about f in. across ; the broad disc rather fleshy, 

 remainder thin ; convex when young, soon quite plane, 

 closely and distinctly striate at the margin, blackish-brown 

 when moist, grey when dry ; when dry the edge is upturned 

 and blackish, forming a shallow saucer-like depression ; gills 

 adnate with a decurrent tooth, crowded at first, ventricose, 

 becoming rather distant as the pileus expands, distinct, 

 grey, margin paler ; stem 1^2 in. long, about 1 line thick, 

 equal, rigid, rather fragile^ often wavy, even, glabrous, 

 naked, livid, base elongated and downy when growing among 

 moss, but not truly rooting. 



Agaricus peltatus, Fries, Epicr., p. 110; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 83. 



In pastures, among moss. 



Closely gregarious. Inodorous. More or less resembling 

 M. aetites, but distinguished by the absence of a viscid, 

 separable pellicle. 



Mycena consimilis. Cooke. 



Gregarious. Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh very thin, 

 conically campanulate, umbonate, margin soon upturned and 

 at length splitting, striate to the middle, smooth, opaque, 

 grey, the umbo darker ; gills adnexed or nearly free, scarcely 

 crowded, not 1 line broad, grey; stem about 1| in. long, 

 rather thinner upwards, often compressed below, rather 

 rigid, dry, smooth, paler than the pileus, hollow. 



Agaricus (Mycena) consimilis, Cke., Grevillea, xix. p. 41 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 383; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1186. 



Among grass. 



More or less resembling the following species. M. lepto- 

 cephala differs in the striate stem and strong nitrous smel 1 . 

 M. metata also differs in the strong smell. M. peltata differs 



