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also lacks the "faint" quality of most stinkhorns. The slime 

 containing the odor is inside the five rays and oozes through the 

 spaces between them as they spread slightly. The ''eggs" are in 

 clusters of three or four or more, and about 3.5-4 cm. in diameter. 

 A section of the "egg" shows the conspicuous pileus enclosed by 

 the thin white inner wall, while the stipe is much compressed, 

 until the elongation begins which pushes the pileus rapidly into 

 the air, the odor at the same time advertising to flies that food 

 is at hand in exchange for the dissemination of spores. 



Mycena vexans (Peck) Sacc. 

 Vexing Mycena 



Plate 68. Figure 9. X i 



Pileus conic to broadly convex, the umbo becoming inconspicu- 

 ous with age, gregarious, 1-2 cm. in diameter; surface glabrous, 

 not viscid, radiate-striate, uniformly fumose-avellaneous, or with 

 the umbo slightly darker when young, margin thin, straight, con- 

 colorous ; cpntext sweetish, odor pleasant ; lamellae adnate, break- 

 ing away from the stipe, broad, distant, slightly ventricose, three 

 times inserted, white with an ashy tint ; spores ellipsoid, pointed 

 at one end, smooth, hyaline, 8-9 X 5 /«- ; stipe long, slender, equal, 

 glabrous, avellaneous, nearly white at the apex, hairy at the base, 

 hollow, cartilaginous, 5-7 cm. long, about 2 mm. thick. 



The specimens here figured appeared in abundance among 

 needles and twigs beneath a Norway spruce tree in dense woods 

 in Bronx Park, June 14, 191 1- The species was described from 

 the Adirondack Mountains in 1885, but seems to be very little 

 known. 



Omphalopsis Campanella (Batsch) Earle 

 Omphalia Campanella (Batsch) Quel. 

 Bell-Shaped Omphalopsis 



Plate 68. Figure 10. X i 



Pileus thin, toughish, convex, umbilicate, often irregular, usually 

 densely cespitose, 0.7-2 cm. broad; surface delicately striate, 

 hygrophanous in moist weather, yellowish-ferruginous to dull 

 reddish-yellow; lamellae narrow, decurrent, strongly arcuate, 

 yellow, connected by veins; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 



