Identifier: synopsisofbritish00smit (find matches)
Title: Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes ; a descriptive catalogue of the drawings and specimens in the Department of botany, British museum
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917
Subjects: British Museum Fungi -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, Printed by order of the Trustees of the British museum
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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r brown; mid. darker. St. wavy, whitish-pulverulent on a grey-brown ground. G. adnato-free, varying in attachment, livid-brownish or grey. Flesh pale brown. Taste slightly rank; odour weak or none. Shady woods amongst grass.Oct. \\ X 2J X \ in. Myce?ia AGARICACE/E 69 285. C. Dorotheas Sacc. (after Lady Dorothy Neville) a. P. globose, then flat, slightly umbilicate, very thin, dark brown ;marg. denticulate. St. slightly swollen at base, minutelyvelvety, white, yellowish or rufous. G. adnexed, narrow,white.On dead fern-stems in hothouses. ->i in. 286. C. caldarii Sacc. (from its habitat, a caldarium or hot-hoUse) a.P. hemispherical, slightly umbonate, brown. St. paler than P. G. adnato-decurrent, somewhat ashy.On Sphagmttn in orchid-pot. f X2jx jj$ in. IX. MYCENA Quel.(Gr. ??iukes, a fungus.) Veil almost obsolete, only seen in fibrillse, pile, flock, tomentumor gluten. In Section h, Basipedes, the edge of the pileus isconnected with the circumference of the basal disc in infancy, and
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Fig. 18.—a, a, Mycena epipterygia Quel.;B, ditto in section. One-half natural size,c, M. tenerrima Quel., young state showingbasal disc and veil ; d, M. stylobates Quel.,young state, showing basal disc and veil;e, basal disc ; c, D, e, enlarged. so forms a kind of universal veil. Hymenophore confluent with butheterogeneous from the cartilaginous stem. Pileus at first conico-cylindrical, becoming more or less campanulate, submembranous,not cartilaginous, never truly umbilicate, margin more or less JO AGARICACE/E Mycena striate, at first adpressed to the stem, never involute. A few speciesas the next genus is approached have the pileus slightly depressed.Stem simple, slender, central, fistulose (except 310) and cartila-ginous, sometimes hair-like, sometimes rooting amongst dead leaves.Gills adnate or adnexed, often sinuate, varied in attachment, nottruly decurrent, often minutely denticulate or fringed at the edge.(Fig. 18.) Most of the species grow on twigs, stumps, dead branches and

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