MYCENA. 103 



campanulate, finely striate almost or quite up to the slightly 

 umbonate disc, which is not at all fleshy, livid-brown, margin 

 naked ; gills adnate, narrow, linear, distinct, whitish ; stem, 

 3-4 in. long, not 1 line thick, slightly striate, shining, 

 coloured like the pileus or paler, hollow, base fibrillose. 



Agaricus (Mycena) vitreus, Fries, Syst. Myc., i p. 146 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 84; Cke., Illustr., pi. 160A. 



In damp pine woods, &c. 



Very fragile. Allied to M. aetites and M. stannea, but dis- 

 tinguished from both by the narrow, linear (not arcuate or 

 ventricose, but with the edge straight) gills which are not 

 at all sinuate behind, without a trace of a decurrent tooth, 

 and not connected by veins. 



Mycena tennis. Bolton. 



Pure white. Pileus about ^ in. across, very brittle, mem- 

 branaceous; campanulate, then convex, obtuse, striate for 

 more than half way up to the disc, margin crenulate ; gills 

 adnate, ascending, distant, thin, watery ; stem about 23 in. 

 long, thin, equal, glabrous, pellucid, straight, minutely 

 fistuiose. 



Agaricus tennis, Bolton, t. 37; Cke., Hdbk., p. 84; Cke., 

 Illustr., pi. 160s. 



In damp woods. 



Fasciculate ; pure white, very fragile and watery ; some- 

 what resembling M. gypsea, which ditfers in the strigose 

 base of the stem ; gills with a slight decurrent tooth, and 

 yellowish disc. 



VII. RIGIDIPEDES. 



Mycena prolifera. Sow. 



Pileus about f in. across ; flesh thin ; campanulate, then 

 expanded, more or less umbonate, margin at length coarsely 

 striate, yellowish or brownish tan ; gills adnexed, 1 line 

 broad, whitish then pallid ; stem about 3 in. long, firm, 

 rigid, glabrous, shining, slightly striate, rooting, brownish 

 below, pallid upwards. 



Agaricus proliferus, Sowerby, t. 169; Cke., Hdbk., p. 79; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 235. 



On rotten wood and on the ground. 



Densely caespitose ; stem frequently proliferous. Stem. 



