The pileus is slightly fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, rugoso-reticulate, viscid, margin striate, pale violaceous.
The gills are free, ventricose, crowded, saffron-yellow, to ferruginous.
The stem is one to two inches long, hollow, fragile, fibrillose, inclined to be mealy at the top, white.
I have found only a few plants of this species in our state. It seems to be rare. The anastomosing veins on the cap and its pale violaceous color will mark the species. I have always found it on decayed wood. Captain McIlvaine speaks of finding it in quantities on the stems of fallen weeds and says it was tender and of fine flavor. September.
Galera. Fr.
Galera means a small cap. The pileus is more or less bell-shaped, margin straight, at first depressed to the stem, hygrophanous, almost even, atomate when dry, more or less membranaceous.
The gills are attached to the stem or with a decurrent tooth, as in Mycena.
The stem is cartilaginous, hollow, confluent with, but different in texture from the cap. The veil is often wanting, but when present is fibrous and fugacious. The spores are ochraceous ferruginous.
Galera hypnorum. Batsch.
The Moss-Loving Galera.