The Small Peaked-cap Mycena. Edible.
Plate XVI. Figure 89.—Mycena galericulata.
Natural size.
Galericulata, a small peaked-cap.
The pileus is campanulate, whitish or grayish, center of the disk darker and lighter toward the margin, smooth, dry, margin striated nearly to the peak of the umbo, sometimes slightly depressed.
The gills are adnate with a tooth, connected by veins, whitish, then gray, often flesh color, rather distant, ventricose, edge sometimes entire, sometimes serrate.
The stem is rigid, cartilaginous, hollow, tough, straight, polished, smooth, hairy at the base.
It grows on logs and stumps in the woods. It is very common and sometimes found in abundance. The plants are frequently densely clustered, the numerous stems matted together by a soft hairy down at the base. There are many forms of this plant. Found from September to frost. The plants in Figure 89 were photographed by Prof. G. D. Smith, Akron, O.