Psathyra gyroflexa.
Natural size. (After Massee.)
Omitted from Index to Species.
Veil none or only universal, and floccoso-fibrillose. Stem somewhat cartilaginous, fistulose with a tube, polished, fragile. Pileus conical or bell-shaped, membranaceous, the margin at the first straight and adpressed to the stem. Gills becoming purple or brownish. Slender, fragile, hygrophanous.
Some of the last species of Hypholoma and Psilocybe are very closely allied to them. The Coprinarii are readily distinguished by the gills being white or ash-color, then black, not dusky-brown nor becoming purple.
Psathyra corresponds with Mycena, Nolanea, Galera and Psathyrella. All the species grow on the ground or on trunks. Stevenson.
But four American species reported. Small and unimportant.
DECONICA.
Stem tough; margin of Pileus at first incurved. Gills subtriangularly decurrent. Corresponds with Omphalia, Eccilia, Tubaria.
Few American species. Small and unimportant.