MYCENA. 101 



Smell alkaline, weak or entirely absent; pileus usually 

 grey when moist, sometimes reddisib-pink, pallid, &c. 



Among moss in pastures, also in pine woods ; gregarious 

 but never caespitose. Smell weak, alkaline, often entirely 

 absent. In other respects differing widely from M. ammoniaca, 

 M. alcalina, and W. leptocephala in the soft and flaccid, 

 substance, and in the bygrophanous pileus readily becoming 

 ■pale and discoloured. (Fries.) 



Mycena peltata. Fr. 



Pileus about f in. across ; the broad disc rather fleshy,- 

 remainder thin ; convex when young, soon quite plane, 

 closely and distinctly striate at the margin, blackish-brown 

 when moist, grey when dry ; when dry the edge is upturned 

 and blackish, forming a shallow saucer-like depression ; gills 

 adnate with a decurrent tooth, crowded at first, ventricose, 

 becoming rather distant as the pileus expands, distinct, 

 grey, margin paler ; stem 11-2 in. long, about 1 line thick,- 

 equal, rigid, rather fragile, often wavy, even, glabrous, 

 naked, livid, base elongated and downy when growing among 

 moss, but not truly rooting. 



Agaricus peltatus. Fries, Epicr., p. 110 ; Cke., Hdbk.. 

 p. 83. 



In pastures, among moss. 



Closely gregarious. Inodorous. More or less resembling: 

 M. aetites, but distinguished by the absence of a viscid,, 

 separable pellicle. 



Mycena consimilis. Cooke. 



Gregarious. Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh very thin,, 

 conically campanulate, umbonate, margin soon upturned and 

 at length splitting, striate to the middle, smooth, opaque, 

 grey, the umbo darker ; gills adnexed or nearly free, scarcely 

 crowded, not 1 line broad, grey; stem about 1^ in. long, 

 rather thinner upwards, often compressed below, rather 

 ligid, dry, smooth, paler than the pileus, hollow. 



Agaricus (^Mycena) consimilis, Cke., Grevillea, xix. p. 41 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 383; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1186. 



Among grass. 



Mure or less resembling the following species. M. lepto- 

 cephala difiers in the striate stem and strong nitrous smcl . 

 M. metata also differs in the strong smell. M. peltata difl'ers 



