Part 31

Habit of M. scorodonius, but no smell.

=Vaillantii=, Fr. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. depr. plicately rugose, whitish; g. broad, subdecurrent; s. 2-2.5 cm. glabrous, bay, apex paler and thickened; sp. 10 x 6.

M. impudicus differs in purplish stem with white down when dry. M. foetidus differs in strong smell.

=angulatus=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. soon exp. at length folded and angular, whitish or tinge of tawny; g. distant; s. 2-3 cm. greyish rufescent, thickened at both ends; sp. 7 x 4.

Closely resembling M. Curreyi and M. graminum; differs from former in ventricose gills not attached to a collar; from the latter in the gills not being attached to a collar. M. calopus differs in the shining, bay stem.

=languidus=, Fr. P. 1.5-2 cm. umbil. flocculose, rugosely sulcate, whitish tinged yellow or flesh colour; g. narrow; s. 2-3 cm. thickened upwards, pale, naked, base tawny; sp. 6-7 x 4.

=rubricatus=, Mass. P. up to 1 cm. soon plane, whitish tinged red; g. adnexed, white then brownish; s. 1-2 cm. slender, incurved, hollow; sp. 6 x 3.

** Stem velvety pruinose, base subtuberculose.

=foetidus=, Fr. Foetid. P. 2-3 cm. exp. and umbil. or wavy, striato-plicate, tawny bay or rufous, pruinose when dry; g. rufescent with a yellow tinge; s. 2-3 cm. hollow, bay, minutely velvety; sp. 7 x 4.

=inodorus=, Pat. P. thin, exp. reddish brown with adpr. silky down; g. adnate, crowded, whitish; s. blackish red, apex pale, entirely covered with white bloom.

Differs from M. foetidus in absence of smell.

=amadelphus=, Fr. P. 3-4 mm. soon plane, disc slightly pruinose, margin at length striate, pale reddish-yellow; g. broadly adnate, broad; s. pallid, bay below, slightly pruinose 1-1.5 cm.; sp. 4 x 2.5.

var. insignis. G. very distant, pale umber.

=ramealis=, Fr. P. 2-4 mm. opaque, rugulose, not striate, white, disc often tinged rufescent; g. rather distant, narrow, white, adnate; s. 1 cm. white, mealy, base darker; sp. 4 x 2.

=candidus=, Bolt. Entirely white. P. up to 0.5 cm. pellucid, wrinkled, naked; g. adnexed; s. 1-2 cm. whitish, slightly pruinose, base tinged brownish; sp. 4 x 2.

B. MYCENA. Stem horny, fistulose but often with a pith, tough, dry, mycelium rhizomorphoid, cortex not floccose, edge of pileus straight and adpressed to stem at first.

I. CHORDALES. Stem rigid, rooting, or adnate by a dilated base.

=alliaceus=, Fr. Smell of garlic. P. 2.4 cm. subumb. even then striate or sulcate, greyish; g. free; s. 6-10 cm. minutely velvety, blackish; sp. 14-16 x 8.

=molyoides=, Fr. Smell somewhat unpleasant. P. soon plane, even, brownish then pale; g. free, crowded, white; s. tall, hollow, glabrous, blackish brown.

=cauticinalis=, Fr. P. about 1 cm. yellowish, even then striato-sulcate; g. adnato-decur. connected by veins, yellow; s. 3-6 cm. flocculose, bay, paler and mealy upwards; sp. 7 x 3-5.

II. ROTULAE. Stem filiform, flaccid, base entering matrix abruptly.

* Stem very glabrous, shining.

=rotula=, Fr. P. 4-7 mm. umbilicate, plicate, whitish or disc slightly tinged; g. attached to a free collar encircling the stem; s. 2-4 cm. glabrous, blackish, shining; sp. 6 x 3-4.

=graminum=, Berk. P. up to 1 cm. umb. striate or sulcate, pale rufous, disc darker; g. attached to a collar encircling stem, few in number; s. 2-4 cm. black, shining, glabrous, apex paler; sp. subgl. 3-4.

=androsaceus=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. whitish, umbilicate striate; g. adnate to stem; s. 3-6 cm. black, glabrous, polished; sp. 7 x 3-4.

Passed as Collybia cirrhata very frequently. The latter differs in not springing from a sclerotium. Collybia tuberosa differs in growing on fungi.

=splachnoides=, Fr. Inodorous. P. up to 1 cm. whitish, subumbilicate, striate; g. subdecurrent; s. 2-4 cm. polished, reddish-brown; sp. 8 x 5.

Similar in habit to M. perforans, but no smell, and white subdecurrent gills.