98 FUNGUS-FLOBA. 



dark UtiisTi-grey, covered with, a wMte evanescent blooiu ; 

 gills narrow hekind, united by a collar behind and slightly 

 adnexed, distant, whitish; stem lJ-3 in. long, straight, 

 slender, equal, extreme base slightly thickened, glabrous, 

 blackish-blue. 



Agaricus (Mycenob) atroeyanea, Batsch, f. 87 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 82 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 236b. 



On the ground, on pine leaves, &c. 



Usually gregarious, sometimes clustered. Distinguished 

 from allied forms by the whitish gills and absence of milk 

 in the stem. 



Umbo obtuse, often deformed. 



Mycena puUata. Berk. & Cke. 



Smell slight, nitrous. Pileus ^— | in. across, flesh very 

 thin; campanulate, obtusely umbonate, coarsely striate to 

 the middle, dark brown, disc nearly black ; gills adnexed, 

 white, scarcely crowded, about 1 line broad ; stem about 

 3 in. long, about 1 line thick at the base, slightly thinner 

 upwards, coloured like the pileus, with whitish down at the 

 base, hollow, sometimes rooting ; spores elliptical, 6 x 3 ^u.. 



Agaricus (Myeena) pullatus. Berk. & Cke., Grev., xi. p. 69 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 82; Cke., Illustr., pi. 237. 



On the ground among dead leaves. 



Stem 3 in. long, 1 line thick. Pileus f in. broad, at first 

 (lark brown with a tinge of purple, almost black, growing a 

 a little paler with age, sometimes with a glaucous bloom. 

 (Cooke.) 



Closely resembling M. leucogala, but distinguished by the 

 absence of milk in the stem ; this character also separates 

 the dark form of M. galopoda. M. atroeyanea differs in the 

 dark blue tinge of pileus and stem. 



Mycena leptocepliala. Pers. 



Smell strong, alkaline. Solitary; entirely grey. Pileus 

 up to 1 in. across, flesh very thin, fragile, campanulate then 

 expanded, umbonate, coarsely striate, margin often wavy, 

 pruinose or slightly silky, opaque ; gills emarginate, rather 

 broad, margin whitish ; stem up to 2 in. long, 1 line thick, 

 slightly striate, opaque, dry, equal. 



Agaricus leiptoce'phalus, Persoon, Icon, ot Descr., t. ii. f. 4 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 187a; Cke., Hdbk., p. 83. 



