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to be free, crowded, connected Y>y veins, livid with a 

 greenisli "tinge, margin orange, fimbriate ; stem firm, hollow, 

 1— li in. long, 3-4 lines thics at the base, 1-2 lines at the. 

 apex, even, glabrons, livid or pale, base inflated, ventricose, 

 and strigose with yellow down. 



Agaricas (Mycena ) aurantio-marginatus. Fries, Epicr., p. 100 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 76.' 



Distinguished by the fimbriate, orange margin of the gills, 

 and the swollen base of the stem with yellow down. 



Mycena elegans. Pers. 



Pilens ^— J in, across, meiubranaceons, campannlate, mori- 

 or less nmbonate, striate, glabrons, lirown or livid-j-elLow, 

 opaque, not hygrophanous ; gill^ adnate with a decurrei.T 

 tooth, naiTOw^, rather distant, distinct, colour variable, usually 

 livid, sides greyish, but varying to whitish, yellowish, etc., 

 the edge entire, darker, saffron-colour ; stem about 2 in. long, 

 I line thick, equal, livid, base fibrillosely downy, hollow, 

 rigid, straight ; spores 8-10 x 4^5 /jl. 



Agaricus elegans, Persoon. Syn., p. 391 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 76 ; 

 Cke., lUnstr., pi. 234a. 



In pine woods, &c., on the ground. 



Gregarious ; smell weak or absent. Distinguished by the 

 «affron-colonred margin of the giUs. 



Mycena balanina. Eerk. 



Pilens §—1^ in. across, flesh rather thick at the disc, 

 margin thin, convex then plane, often with an umbo ; striate 

 when moist, even when dry, pale yellowish-brown ; gills 

 adnate, then separating from the stem, connected by veins, 

 1^ line broad, white with a pinkish tinge, edge purple; 

 stem about 3 in. long, 1-lJ line thick at the apex, usually 

 becoming thinner downwards, striate, downy below, squamu- 

 lose above, brownish, becoming paler at the apex, hollow. 



Agaricus (Mycena) halaninus. Berk., Mag. Zool. & Bjt., 

 vol. i., t. 15, f. 2; Cke., Hdbk., p. 76 ; Cke., Ulustr., pi. 1.56, 

 £2. 



On beech-mast, among beech leaves, &c. 



Distinguished among species having the margin of th& 

 gills darker, by the large size and colour of the pileus. 



