GALEEA. 143 



tusely umboiiate, purple or purple-brown, clad with minute, 

 persistent small squamules of tlie same colour, dry, not 

 becoming pale ; gUls adnate, somewhat rounded behind, not 

 crowded, lemon-yellow, at length bright ferruginous, narrow ; 

 stem 1-2 in. long, curved, asoendiiig, equal, smooth and 

 pallid above, purplish and granulose downwards, solid, flesh 

 yellow towards the apex, purplish below ; ring imperfect, 

 fibrillose ; spores elliptical, ferruginous, 8 x 5 /x. 



Agaricus (Flammula) purpuratus, Cooke & Massee, Grev., 

 vol. xviii. p. 73 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 375 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 964. 



On tree-fern stems. 



Taste very bitter. Flesh of pileus thick, tinged with 

 purple. Probably an imported species. 



GALEEA. Fries, (figs. 5, 6, p. 3.) 



Pileus more or less membranaceous, conical or oval then 

 expanded, striate, margin at first straight and adpressed to 

 the stem ; stem central, somewhat cartilaginous, tubular ; 

 gills adnate or slightly adnexed and becoming almost free, 

 sometimes with a slight decurrent tooth, but never truly 

 deourrent; spores elliptical, smooth, tawny-ochraceous. 



Galera, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 264 (as a subgenus of 

 ^(/aWcus); Cke., Hdbk., p. 183. 



The genus is most nearly allied !to Naucoria, but dis- 

 tinguished by the thin, striate pUeus, having the margin 

 straight and adpressed to the stem when young. Mostly 

 slender, small, and fragile. 



A remarkably natural group. Corresponding to Mycena 

 and Nolanea, but readily distinguished by the rusty-ochra- 

 ceous spores. Prom other groups of the Dermini (Ochro- 

 sporae), distinguished by the hollow, cartilaginous stem, and 

 the more or less campanulate pileus having the margin 

 straight and adpressed to the stem at first. Yeil evident 

 in some species, but fugacious, fibrillose, in others quite 

 absent. Species not very numerous, generally autumnal, for 

 the most part terrestrial, slender, fragile. (Fries.) 



