108 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Var. ealopus, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 139 ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 223A. 



Stems chestnut-colour, united at the base into a common, 

 fusiform rooting stem. 



On stumps. 



Mycena polygramma. Bull. 



Pileus thin, elastic, conico-campanulate, often becoming 

 expanded ; dark grey with brown tinge when moist, paler 

 when dry, margin coarsely striate ; gills broadest in front, 

 thick, distant, pale grey, often with a suggestion of pink, 

 then whitish; stem 3-4 in. long, equal, tough, shining, 

 distinctly striate throughout its length, pale grey, base 

 strigose, rooting; spores elliptic-oblong, obliquely apiculate, 

 11-12 x 6 p.. 



Agaricus (Mycena?) polygrammus, Bull., Champ., t. 395 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., t. 223B. 



On trunks, stumps, &c. 



Separated from M. plicata by the tougher substance and 

 slriate stem. 



Pileus 1-lJ in. broad, at first cinereous, umber towards 

 the margin, glandiform, prninose, then livid brown, conico- 

 campanulate, submembranaceous, rugose with innate fibres,, 

 margin striate. Gills rather distant, at first dirty-white, 

 then pinkish, ventricose though sometimes almost linear, all 

 but free, margin subseri ulate. Stem 3 in. high, 1 line or 

 more thick, regularly and deeply striate, the interstices 

 fibrillose, but occasionally the striae are obsolete, silvery, 

 rooting, fistulose, nearly the colour of the pileus, but paler, 

 twisted, brittle. Inodorous, insipid. (Berk.) 



Mycena parabolica. Fr. 



Pileus l-ll in. high and broad, flesh quite thin; at first 

 erect and oval then parabolic, obtuse, moist, somewhat 

 shining, glabrous, even, disc blackish with a violet tinge, 

 remainder pallid becoming whitish towards the striate 

 margin; gills adnexed, ascending, rather distant, slightly 

 connected by veins, margin quite entire, white, base 

 greyish ; stem 2-3 in. long, about 2 lines thick at the coarsely 

 hispid base, thinner upwards, blackish-violet above, base 

 paier, covered with white meal when young, even, glabrous, 

 dry, fistulose, not very rigid; spores elliptical, 11-12 X 6 /A. 



