North Carolina, Schweinitz, Curtis; New England, Frost; New Jersey, Ellis; New York, August, Peck, 23d Rep.
M. ca´lopes Fr. Gr—beautiful; a foot. Pileus about 4 lines broad, whitish, slightly fleshy, tough, convex then flattened, obtuse, rarely depressed, even, smooth, slightly wrinkled when dried. Stem 1 in. long, 1 line thick, tubed, slightly attenuated upward, even, smooth, tough, dull-red or bay-brown-red, shining, somewhat rooted. Gills slightly emarginate, in groups of 2–4, thin, white.
Inodorous. Almost smaller than M. scorodonius, but the stem is longer, otherwise very like it. Fries.
Spores elliptical, 7×4µ Massee.
Twigs and stems among fallen leaves in woods. Ticonderoga. August.
This might easily be mistaken for M. scorodonius, but it is without odor, and has a different insertion of the lamellæ. It is sometimes cespitose. The pileus in our specimens is whitish. Peck, 31st Rep. N.Y. State Bot.
Because of its similarity to M. scorodonius, which is edible, it is given here.
II.—Mycena.
A. Chordales.
M. allia´ceus Fr.—allium, garlic. Pileus 1–1½ in. broad, whitish inclining to fuscous, often milk-white when young, somewhat membranaceous, campanulate then expanded, somewhat umbonate, even, at length striate and sulcate, smooth, dry. Stem as much as 8 in. long, horny, rigid, fistulose, attenuated upward, pruinato-velvety, blackish, rooted at the base where it is somewhat incurved and naked. Gills adnexed in the form of a ring, then free, slightly ventricose, arid, slightly distant, fuscous-whitish, crisped when dry.