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Stem: sooty brown, tough and smooth.

Flesh: sooty brown.

Gills: whitish then grey, adnate and not very crowded.

Spores: medium sized, subglobose, 4-6 × 4-5 µm in diameter and minutely roughened.

Spore-print: white, not blueing in solutions of iodine.

General Information: T. atrata also grows on burnt soil and is very closely related, but differs in its spores being broadly ellipsoid and smooth. Mycena leucogala also grows on burnt soil (see p. 88).

Illustrations: T. anthracophila--LH 83. T. atrata--WD 4^{b}.

~Psathyrella pennata~ (Fries) Pearson & Dennis

Bonfire brittle-cap

Cap: width 10-30 mm. Stem: width 1-3 mm; length 30-40 mm.

Description:

Cap: conical or bell-shaped then expanding and slightly umbonate, whitish because of a coating of dense fibrils, but soon becoming brownish as these are lost.

Stem: short, stout, white and densely floccose.

Gills: slightly adnate, pale brownish grey with pink tinge, then dark-brown.

Spore-print: purplish brown.

Spores: medium sized, oval, ellipsoid with an obvious germ-pore, purplish brown under the microscope and 8-9 × 4-5 µm in size.

Marginal & facial cystidia: flask-shaped, hyaline with either a short or long neck.

The brown-spored Hebeloma anthracophila Maire is similar.

~Coprinus angulatus~ Peck

Bonfire ink-cap

Cap: width 4-25 mm. Stem: 1-3 mm; length 15-30 mm.

Description:

Cap: dark red-brown at first, then orange-brown, especially at the margin and appearing as if frosted all over, conical at first but rapidly expanding at the margin and becoming grey-brown, strongly striate and deliquescent, leaving finally only a central red-brown umbo.

Stem: white and minutely hairy.

Gills: free, dirty whitish then black.

Spore-print: black-brown.

Spores: medium sized, dark brown under the microscope, lobed like the hat of a bishop and 8-11 × 6-8 × 5-7 µm in size.

Marginal cystidia: bottle-shaped, very variable.