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Subgenus 7. Mycena. — Stem externally cartilaginous. Margin 

 of pileus (which is mostly campanulate) at first straight and 

 pressed to the stem. 



* Margin of gills different in colour from their surface. 



122. A. (Mycena) pelianthinus, Fr. ; pileus somewhat 

 fleshy, convex, nearly plane, moist, hygrophauous ; margin 

 striate; stem firm, fibrilloso-striate ; gills emarginate, ad- 

 nexed, beautifully connected by veins, edge darker, somewhat 

 toothed. (Plate 6, fig. 1 .) 



Amongst dead leaves, in woods. Not very common. Pileus 

 at first lilac or rose-coloured, 1^-2 inches across; gills pur- 

 plish, with a darker toothed edge, a character which at once 

 distinguishes it from A. pur us. 



123. A. (Mycena) balaninus, B. ; pileus somewhat fleshy, 

 convex, umbonate, dry, minutely pulverulent, striate when 

 moist; stem rooting, villous and dark below, white and prui- 

 nose above; gills connected by veins, pale, with a purple 

 edge. — Mag. of Zool. and Bot. i. t. 15./. 2. 



Amongst oak-leaves, beech-mast, etc. Rare. King's Cliffe. 

 An exquisite species. Stem bright brown below, spongy at 

 the base. Gills sprinkled with purple spicules. Pileus oclira- 

 ceous, 1 inch or more across. 



124. A. (Mycena) elegans, P. ; pileus submembranaceous, 

 campanulate, striate, umbonate; stem even, equal, rigid, to- 

 mentose at the base, floccoso-fibrillose ; gills linear, adnatc, 

 dirty-white ; edge yellow, entire. 



In woods. Not uncommon. Pileus half an inch or more 

 across, greyish or livid-yellow. I have given Frics's cha- 

 racter, but find the gills rather broad, though scarcely ventri- 

 cose. The dark tint is often confined to the part nearest the 

 pileus. 



