150 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



margin pale ; stem ^-| in. long, hair-like, smooth, tawny, 

 shining, woolly and white at the base ; spores elliptical, 

 6 X 4>. 



Agaricus (Qalera) minutua, Quel., Jura, iii. 10, t. 1, f. 5 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 466b; Cke., Hdbk., p. 186. 



On decayed wood. 



Eeadily distinguished by its small size. 



ttt EEIODEKMEI. 



Galera ravida. Pr. 



Pileus i-l|^ in. across, almost membranaceous at first 

 campanulate then hemispherical, even, moist, very slightly 

 viscid, truly hygrophanous, rather silky when dry, colour 

 greyish, the margin when young more or less fringed with 

 tooth-like fragments of the white veil ; stem about 1^ in. 

 long, about 1 line thick, equal, hollow, very fragile, ascending 

 or twisted, pallid or with a yellow tinge, but silvery shining, 

 fibrillosely striate, apex slightly mealy ; gills almost free, 

 broad, ventricose, distant, saffron-ochre or yellowish. 



Agaricus (^Galera) ravidus, Pries, Epicr., p. 204; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 186 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 467a. 



On rotten wood, or on the ground among chips, &c. 



Gregarious. Fragile. Pileus dingy ochraceous and some- 

 what silky when dry. Stem often rather twisted. 



Galera mycenopsis. Fr. 



Pileus up to ;| in. across, flesh very thin, campanulate then 

 expanded, disc even, striate to the middle, at first white and 

 silky near the margin from the veil, pale ochraceous ; gills 

 adnexed, seceding, ventricose, 1| line broad, rather distant, 

 whitish then pale ochraceous ; stem 3-4 in. long, attenuated, 

 with a white silkiness, hollow. 



Agaricus mycenopsis, Fries, Obs,, ii. p. 38 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 186 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 467b. 



In marshy ground amongst sphagnum, &c. 



Stem soft, 2-4 in. long, generally undulated, yellowish 

 with an evanescent silky down, fibrillosely striate, apex 

 pruinose. Pileus ochraceous becoming pale, 3-10 lines broad, 

 glabrous when adult, not viscid nor depressed. (Fries.) 



