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* Base of stem woolly or strigose. 



** Base of stem naked, often composed of twisted inter- 

 woven fibres. 



B. Tergini. 



Stem rooting, distinctly tubular, not fibrous, evidently 

 cartilaginous ; gills separating from the stem and becoming 

 free ; pileus thinner than in the previous section, hygro- 

 phanous, sometimes even, sometimes with the margin 

 striate. 



* Stem woolly below, glabrous above. 



** Stem (at least when dry) everywhere covered with a 

 fine pruinose down. 



C. Calopodes. 



Stem short, not rooting, often with a floccose or downy 

 tubercular base; pileus convex and with the margin in- 

 curved, then expanded and more or less depressed, and in 

 this condition the gills, that are typically adnate, become 

 somewhat decurrent. 



On twigs, branches, &c. ; gregarious, dry. 



* Stem very glabrous upwards, shining, base not swollen. 



** Stem covered with fine pruinose down, base somewhat 

 tuberculose. 



II. MYCENARII. 



Stem horny, fistulose but often filled with pith, tough, 

 dry, .corticate, mycelium rhizomorphoid, not floccose ; pileus 

 somewhat membranaceous, campanulate then expanded, 

 margin at first straight and pressed to the stem. 



A. Chordales.'. 



Stem rigid, rooting or adnate by a dilated base ; pileus 

 campanulate or convex. 



The Mycena type of structure evident. 



