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THE LARGER FUNGI 
Our plants resomble closely Cooke's Illustration of M. pullata differing only ill 
being pallid below the gills. The brown pilous and stem contrast markedly with 
the pure white gills. 
V. Stem filiform, scarcely a line thick (and not more), flaccid, somewhat tough, 
rooting, dry, juiceless, commonly very long in proportion to the pileus. Gills 
paler at the edge and changing colour. Very slender, tense and straight, terrestrial 
and amongst moss, inodorous, solitary, l’ileus usually fuscous, becoming some- 
what pale, not hygroplianous. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
VI. Stem and gills exuding a milky, usually coloured juice when broken. 
Stem dry, rooting. 
77. Mycena sanguinclenta (A. et S.) FT, (L., sun guiwnlen Iran, bloody). — 
Pileus up to gin. (1.5 cm.), rarely Jin. (2.1 cm.), broad and -jin. (1,2 cm.) high, 
Mibmembranaceous, cunieo-campanulate or rarely conical, sometimes finally 
irregularly upturned, sometimes umbonate, striate, the edge very finely toothed, 
pale brown to reddish-brown (paler than Snuff Proven, xXTX., near Tiikado Brown, 
xxix.), drying paler. Gills adnate, arched, moderately close, sometimes irregular 
with connecting veins, whitish with a faint pink tinge or pallid, edges dark-red 
or dark-purple and finely toothed, Stem up to 3in. (7.5 cm.), slender, shining, 
slightly attenuated upwards, hollow, pale to reddish-brown. A prune-coloured 
dark-red watery juice exudes on section of the stem or from the broken gills. 
Spores elongated, 7 to 9 or even 12 x 5 to 7 g. Amongst leaves under trees, 
grass, etc,, gregarious or even subcaespitose. South Australia — National Park, 
Mount Lofty. New South Wales. May, June, July. (Figure 14 C.) 
Recognisable readily by the pale-brown or reddish-brown pileus, the dark edges 
to the gills and the coloured juice. 
VII. Stem juiceless, glutinous or viscid. Gills at length decurrent by a tooth. 
78. Mycena epipterygia Scop. (Or., epi, on; pterygion, a little wing). — Pileus 
up to jin. (1.2 cm.) broad and high, at first conical, then eonieo-eainpanulate, 
subumbonute, rugose, glutinous, near Sulphiiie Yellow (IV.) when young, later 
near Dark Olive-Buff (xi„), apex darker than periphery. Gills ascending, adnate, 
moderately close, rather ventricose, white. Stem up to Min. (7.5 cm.), slender, 
hollow, a little strigose below, Sulphine Yellow. Spores 8 x 4.8 g. No cystidia 
seen. Attached to buried sticks, grass, etc. South Australia — Mount Lofty, 
Mv lor. June. 
Tire glutinous yellow pileus and stem distinguish this Mycena from our other 
species. 
79. Mycena viscido-cruenta (‘lei. et Oheel (M. m guinea CM. et Oheel, non 
Bow.), (L., viscklus, viscid; cruentii «, red like blood). — Pileus gin. (it) nun.), 
hemispherical to convex, occasionally dimpled or with a slight obtuse umbo, 
faintly striate, viscid when moist, old-blood-red to dull carmine-lake. Gills adnate, 
then slightly decurrent, rather thick, moderately close, rose colour or slightly 
paler than the pilous, edges very slightly darker and finely denticulate. Stem 
lin. (2.5 rni.), glutinous when moist, slender, hollow, usually attached by a small 
fluffy base, the colour of the pileus. On bruising the gills or stem, a little dark- 
red moisture appears. Spores elongated, one end more pointed, 7 to 8.5 x 2.5 
to 3.5 g. Attached to small sticks and leaves in damp shady places. South Aus- 
tralia — Waterfall Gully. Mount Lofty, Inman Valley. New South Wales. May, 
June. 
A very beautiful and elegant species characterised by its blood-red colour and 
glutinous pileus and stem. 
80. Mycena subvulgaris Old . (Near to the species M. vulgaris ). — Pileus g to 
sin. (10 to 21 mm.), convex, umhilicate, striate, margin at first straight, near 
Fuscous (XLVL)), young plants between Buffy Brown and Olive Brown (xi„), 
Gills adnate to adnato-deeurrent, in four tiers, the second tier reaching nearly 
half-way to the stem, the third tier very short, whitish, then with a light greyish 
tint. Stem Ij to 2in. (3.7 to a cm.), slender, very glutinous, slightly strigose 
at the base, hollow, lower portion paler than the pileus (near Drab, txi,vr.), 
whitish above. Flesh of pileus very thin, dark-coloured like the surface, a 
triangular cavity below the umbilicus. Gregarious to subcaespitose, amongst 
leaves and small sticks on the ground. South Australia — National Park. May. 
