MYCENA. 109 



Agaricus (Mycena) parabolicus, Fries, Epicr., p. 107; Cke 

 Hdbk., p. 81 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 224A. 



On rotten trunks, especially pine. 



Gregarious or caespitose. Allied to M. galericulata, but 

 differs in the absence of a decurrent tooth to the gills, and 

 also absence of pink tinge of gills when drying. 



Mycena tintinabulum. Fr. 



Pilous about 1 in. across, flesh quite thin, very tough, 

 campanulately convex, almost plane when adult, scarcely 

 umbonate, altogether even and not rugulose, rather viscid 

 when moist, variable in colour, usually bay, yellowish brown, 

 or pallid, becoming pale ; gills adnate with a decurrent 

 tooth, horizontal, very thin, crowded, narrow, pallid, then 

 tinged pink; stem about 1 in. long, about 1 line thick, 

 always even, glabrous, pallid, very tough, base with short 

 white down ; spores 7-8 x 5 /x. 



Agaricus (Mycena) tintinabulum, Fries, Epicr., p. 107 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 81 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 224s. 



On fallen trunks, &c. 



Allied to M. galericulata, but known by the shorter stem 

 and the perfectly even pileus. Usually gregarious, rarely 

 caespitose. Tough, not rugulose, colour very variable, 

 bluish, yellowish-brown, whitish, usually bay. Gills pallid 

 having a pink tinge when dry. 



VIII. ADONIDEAE. 



Mycena lactea. Pers. 



White. Pileus about | in. across, very thin ; campanulate 

 and slightly umbonate, sometimes becoming expanded, 

 striate when moist, even when dry ; gills adnate, ascending, 

 narrow, crowded; stem 1^-3 in. long, very slender, equal, 

 rather tough, not quite straight, glabrous; spores 7-8 X 

 3-4 p, 



Agaricus lacteus, Persoon, Syn., p. 394 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 79 ; 

 'Cke., Illustr., pi. 159c. 



On the ground in pine woods. 



The disc of the pileus often with a yellow tinge. Dis- 

 tinguished from M. gypsea and M. tenuis by the scattered 

 habit. 



