82 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Distinguislied from the other rose-coloured species by its 

 smaller size, and hy the disc at the hase of the stem. In 

 Fries' Icones, t. 85, f. 4, the stem is in some instances 1 in. 

 long, and very slender ; pileus striate. 



Mycena disoopoda. L6v. 



White. Pileus 1-2 lines high, very thin ; conical, ohtuse, 

 covered with whitish meal ; gills adnate, few, very distant, 

 narrow; stem about 2 lines long, very slender, mealy, ex- 

 panding at the base into a minute downy discoid bulb. 



Agaricus discopus. Lev., Ann. Sci. Nat., 1841, p. 239 ; t. 14, 

 f. 4; Cke., Hdbk., p. 90; Cke., Illustr., pi. 192b. 



On sticks, &c. 



Distinguished by the persistently conical pileus and 

 adnate gills. 



Mycena saccharifera. B. & Br. 



Whitish. Pileus about 2 lines across, very thin; gills 

 arcuately decurrent, very few (8-9), very distant, rather 

 thick, .sprinkled with shining globose white granules ; stem 

 2 lines high, filiform, base with a minute, indistinct disc, 

 fixed by a few white fibrils. 



Agaricus (^Mycena) sacchariferus, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 no. 1216; Cke., Hdbk., p. 90; Cke., Illustr., pi. 192a. 



On bramble and nettle stems. 



Distinguished among the species in the present section by 

 the rudimentary disc, and by the sparkling particles dusted 

 over the gills, these are globose, colourless, and measure 

 20-28 /* diameter. 



Var. electica, Buoknall, Trans. Bristol Soc. ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 249c. 



While. Pileus hemispherical, at length sulcate, clothed, 

 as well as the stem and gills, with sparkling granular 

 pubescence ; stem filiform, slightly dilated and hairy at the 

 base ; gills adnate (4-9), broad, white. 



On dead furze, &c. 



Mycena tenerrima. Berk. 

 White ; very delicate. Pileus l-l|^ line broad, convex, 

 powdered with white scurfy granules ; gills free, ventricose ; 

 stom up to 1 in. high, slender, minutely hairy, fixed by a 

 minute downy disc ; spores subglobose, 3-4 /x diameter. 



