Leucosporae 



Found in great plenty. Base of stems is sometimes white when in Mycena. 

 dense tufts. 



The whole plant is tender, cooking in fifteen minutes, and is of fine 

 flavor. No one will want a better fungus. 



M. mgo'sa Fr. ruga, a wrinkle. PileilS ash-color but becoming 

 pale, very tough, slightly fleshy at the disk, otherwise membranaceous, 

 bell-shaped then expanded, at length rather plane, somewhat obtuse, 

 more or less corrugated (unequal with elevated wrinkles), always dry, 

 not moist even in rainy weather, striate at the circumference. Stem 

 commonly short, remarkably cartilaginous, tubed, rigid, tough, straight, 

 at length compressed, even, smooth, pallid, with a short oblique hairy 

 root. Gills arcnato-adnate , with a decurrent tooth, united behind in a 

 collar, somewhat distant, connected by veins, broad, ventricose, white 

 then gray, edge sometimes quite entire, sometimes with saw-like teeth. 



Always inodorous. Formerly connected with M. galericulata. M. 

 rugosa is arid, very tough, more rarely cespitose, the pileus firm, some- 

 what obtuse, wrinkled but without striae, the gills arcuato-adnate with 

 a hooked tooth, white then ash-color. The genuine M. galericulata is 

 fasciculato-cespitose, somewhat fragile, the pileus thinner, at first con- 

 ical and umbonate, striate without wrinkles, the gills adnate, with a de- 

 current tooth, white then flesh-color. Between these there is a long 

 series of intermediate forms. Fries. 



California, H. and M. ; Kansas, Cragin; Wisconsin, Bundy; New 

 York, September, Peck, 46th Rep.; West Virginia, New Jersey, Penn- 

 sylvania. On decaying wood and ground near stumps. August to 

 November. Mcllvaine. 



The tenacity frequently occurring in Mycena is well shown in this spe- 

 cies. The caps and stem cook tender, but it is better to discard the 

 stems, as the two do not become tender at the same time. 



M. galericula'ta Scop. -galericulum, a small peaked cap. (Plate 

 X, fig. 5, p. 28.) Pileus somewhat membranaceous, conical bell- 

 shaped then expanded, striate to the umbo, dry, smooth, becoming 

 brownish-livid or changeable in color. Stem rigid, polished, even, 

 smooth, with a spindle-shaped root at the base. Gills adnate, decurrent 

 with a tooth, connected by veins, whitish and flesh-colored. 



Very protean. Normally growing in bunches, the numerous stems 



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