No. 15.] HYMENIALES OF CONNECTICUT. 



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7. Plants often growing on other fleshy fungi ; stem with 



distinct tuber at base c. tuberosa 



Plants not growing- on other fungi ; stem without tubers 8 



8. Stem grooved, striate with fibers g 



Stem not grooved 10 



9. Stem even or narrowed towards the base; cap white, 



sometimes spotted with red C. macidata 



Stem narrowed towards the top ; cap red-brown, buttery 

 to the touch C. butyracea 



10. Stem covered with fibrillose tomentum; cap um- 



bilicate C. zomta 



Stem smooth 1 1 



11. Stem white C. strictipes 



Stem red or brown C. dryophila 



MYCENA Fr. 



Plants with a colored juice M. haematopoda 



Plants without colored juice i 



1. Stem clothed with blue hairs at base; all parts of 



young plant tinged with blue M. cyanothrix 



Stem not clothed with blue hairs at base 2 



2. Gills and cap flesh-colored M. sub-incarnata 



Gills and cap not flesh-colored 3 



3. Surface of cap viscid or glutinous 4 



Surface of cap not viscid 5 



4. Cap gray or green-yellow; gills joined squarely to 



stem M. epipterygia 



Cap brown or gray with dark lines; gills running 

 down stem M. milgaris 



5. Cap yellow, deeply striate M. lesiana 



Cap not deeply striate 6 



6. Gills purplish with a darker toothed margin. .M. pelianthina 

 Gills gray, turning pink with age, connected by 



veins M. gqlericulata 



LACTARIUS Fr. 

 Plants with watery juice; cap tan-colored, clothed with 



close tomentum L. aquiilnus 



Plants with variously colored, milky juice, this milk 



sometimes disappearing with age i 



