MYCENA. 85 



about 1 in. long, very slender, glabrous, viscid in moist 

 ■weather, lemon-yellow, base downy but scarcely rooting; 

 «pores obliquely elliptical, 6-8 x 4r-5 /i. 



Agaricus citrinellus, Pers., Ic. Descr., t. ii. f. 3 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 89 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 248a. 



Pine woods, &c., among moss. 



Allied to M. vulgaris, but smaller, less viscid, and pileus 

 not umbilicately depressed. 



Var. Candida. Whitish when fresh, becoming sulphur- 

 jrellow when dry. 



Mycena vulgaris. Pers. 



Pileus about ^ in. across, almost membranaceous, conve.v 

 then depressed and with a central papilla, viscid, pale brown 

 or greyish with darker lines resembling striae ; giUs slightlj' 

 ■deourrent, thin, rather broad, white; stem f— 1|^ in. long, 

 slender, equal, tough, viscid, pale, fibrillosely rooting ; spores 

 pip-shaped, 5 x 2 • 5 /x. 



Agaricus vulgaris, Persoon, Icon. Pict., t. xix. f. 3 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 88; Cke., Illustr., pi. 191b. 



Among pine leaves and on twigs, &c. 



Distinguished at once among the small species by the 

 viscid pileus and stem, pileus depressed and with a minute 

 papillate umbo. Sometimes rufous, or whitish with a dark 

 papilla. 



Mycena pelliculosa. Fr. 



Pileus f-l in. across, flesh very thin ; campanulate then 

 convex, obtuse, finely striat^', with a viscid separable pellicle, 

 greyish or brownish; gills slightly decurrent, joined behind, 

 •otherwise simple and distinct, somewhat like folds, distant, 

 glaucous ; stem 1-1|^ in long, glabrous, viscid, livid, not quite 

 straight as a rule. 



Agaricus (Mycena') pelliculosa. Fries, Epicr., p. 116; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 88 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 191a. 



On the ground among heather, &c. 



Larger than M. vulgaris, and known by the viscid, separablo 

 cuticle. 



Stem slightly thickened at the apex, at length brownish, 

 fragile. (_Fries.) 



