Mycena. 39 



adonis, Bull. P. 3 5 cm. conical then campan. rosy; g. un- 

 cinately adnexed, narrow, white tinged pink; s. equal, white; sp. 



[chlorantha, Fr. P. camp, obtuse, green ; g. sinuato-adnexed, 

 white ; s. short, glabrous, greenish. 



lineata, Bull. P. l 2 cm. obt. glabrous, everywhere finely 

 striate, tinged yellow or whitish ; g. adnate, white ; s. 45 cm. 

 even, base downy ; sp. . 



farrea, Lasch. P. 2 2'5 cm. very thin, expanded, furfuraceous 

 with shining particles, pale, sulcate; g. adnate, snow-white; s. 

 6 7 cm. silky, striate ; sp. . 



Among moss and grass. The only known Mycena with a furfura- 

 ceous pileus. 



luteoalba, Bolton. P. 1 2 cm. campan. then exp. and umb. 

 pale yellow ; g. adnate, broad, white ; s. 35 cm. shining, glabrous, 

 yellowish ; sp. . 



flayoalba, Fr. P. 1 5 cm. exp. umb. often cracked at margin, 

 yellowish or white ; g. soon free, distant ; s. 2 3 cm. white, pellucid, 

 apex pruinose ; sp. 6 8 x 3 4. 



M. lactea differs in adnate gills and downy base of stem. 



M. luteoalba has a yellowish stem. 



lactea, Pers. White. P. 11-5 cm. subumb. striate, even when 

 dry; g. adnate, narrow, crowded ; s. 3 5 cm. toughish, not quite 

 straight, glabrous ; sp. 7 8 x 3 4. 



Differs from M. gypsea and M. tennis in scattered habit. 



var. pithya, Fr. Smaller, p. becoming almost plane; s. thin, 

 base bubillose, downy. 



forma pulchella, Fr. Milk-white ; g. linear, ascending ; s. attenu- 

 ated. Solitary. 



[olida, Bres. Smell very strong, rancid. P. thin, conico-campan. 

 obtuse, then exp. and umb. yellow soon pale straw ; g. uncinato- 

 decur. connected by veins, white ; s. hyaline, strigosely rooting ; sp. 

 89x6. 



gypsea, Fr. Caespitose. Pure white, rarely with a yellow tinge. 

 P. 1 2 cm. conical then campan. striate up to umbo, glabrous; 

 g. subuncinate ; s. 5 7 cm. straight, narrowed upwards from hairy 

 base ; sp. 8 9 x 4. 



[nivea, Q. Shining white. P. sulcate, diaphanous ; g. uncinate ; 

 s. pruinose, base rather swollen, fibrillose. 



[galeropsis, Fr. P. conico-camp. even, gilvous ; g. free, whitish ; 

 s. straight, narrowed upwards, fragile, not rooting, ferruginous 

 below. 



[nucida, Brig. P. campan. obtuse, even, downy under a lens, 

 deep rust-colour, hygr. ; g. free, white then rosy ; s. silky shining, 

 base snow-white, apex mealy. 



[Benzonii, Fr. P. very thin, campan. exp. umbil. finely striate, 

 pallid or reddish ; g. white; s. equal, glabrous, white. 



An introduced species. 



