Part 74

Cap: width 25-75 mm. Stem: width 2-6 mm; length 25-55 mm.

Description:

Cap: finely or minutely velvety at centre, fibrillose or white silky as if frosted towards the margin, sepia or bistre, or mouse-grey, dull-coloured but with a hint of violaceous brown.

Stem: equal or slightly thickened at the apex, sometimes club-shaped, thickened at the base, greyish brown and pale cream-colour at the base.

Flesh: dark sepia in the cap, whitish in the stem and smelling strongly of meal.

Gills: white or whitish at first then dirty pinkish brown, adnate and emarginate.

Spore-print: dull salmon-pink.

Spores: medium to long, angular, ellipsoid-oblong, slightly cinnamon-colour under the microscope and 9-12 × 7-8 µm in size.

Marginal cystidia: conspicuous, spindle or bottle-shaped and with subcapitate apex.

Facial cystidia: absent.

~Hypholoma ericaeum~ (Fries) Kühner

Cap: width 15-30 mm. Stem: width 4-7 mm; length 50-100 mm.

Description:

Cap: fleshy, convex, later becoming flattened but remaining slightly umbonate at the centre, viscid at first, smooth and shining when dry, bright reddish to sand-colour or brown.

Stem: slender, yellow above, brown below, smooth and tough.

Gills: adnate or adnexed, purplish black with a whitish margin and fairly crowded.

Flesh: yellowish or red-brown in the stem.

Spore-print: purple-brown.

Spores: long, dark purple-brown, broadly ellipsoid and 12-15 × 7-9 µm in size.

Marginal cystidia: cylindrical or flask-shaped.

Facial cystidia: flask-shaped and filled with contents which become yellowish in solutions containing ammonia.

~Clavaria argillacea~ (Persoon) Fries

Fruit-body: height 20-60 mm.

Description:

Fruit-body: club-shaped, blunt or rounded at the apex, cylindrical or compressed and often grooved, yellow ochraceous or buff.

Stem: distinct but short and yellowish.

Flesh: yellowish.

Spore-print: white.