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HYMENOMYCETES 
Section V.—Filipedes 
Stem very slender, straight, long, rooting, juiceless, rather tough, 
not glutinous. Pileus not hygrophanous. 
Section VI.—Fragilipedes 
Stem slender, fragile, juiceless; base hairy, not truly swollen; 
scarcely rooting, not issuing abruptly from the matrix. 
Section VII.— Rigidipedes 
Stem firm, rigid, tough, juiceless; base more or less hairy and 
rooting. 
Section VIII.—Adonidese 
Stem juiceless, not swollen at the base. Brightly coloured, not 
brownish species. Gills of one colour. 
Section IX.—Calodontes 
Stem juiceless, not swollen at the base. Gills always with the edge 
distinctly darker than the rest, and minutely saw-edged. 
Section I.—INSITITLE 
M. capillaris (capillus, a hair—from the hair-like stem). 
Plate X. 4. 
P. in., very thin, slightly striate when moist, white. 
G. adnate, few, all of equal length. 5 . usually 1 in. (some¬ 
times 2 or 3 in. when growing amongst leaves), weak, and 
hair-like. Frequent in very wet weather in aut. amongst 
heaps of dead beech-leaves. 
M. corticola ( cortex , bark; colo, to inhabit), a common 
species (Aug. to Dec.) occurring in troops amongst moss, 
etc., on bark of living trees ; differs from the preceding in 
the larger, coloured pileus (shades of black, brown, blue, or 
grey), and the short stem not exceeding 1 in. 
Section II.-BASIPEDES 
M. tenerrima ( tenerrimus , very slender). 
P. jP- in., convex, powdered with minute granules. G. 
free, ventricose. S. up to 1 in., minutely hairy, and fixed by 
