has pointed cystidia and grows on pine-cones.
S. esculentus (Fries) Singer
has lance-shaped cystidia and grows on spruce cones.
Baeospora myosura (Fries) Singer
is tough and pale-coloured and is similar in general characters to species of Strobilurus, but has amyloid spores and fruits on pine-cones in the autumn.
When discussing the specialised plant-substrates, such as cones, one must mention the small brown-spored, pale buff coloured agaric Tubaria dispersa (Persoon) Singer, or Tubaria autochthona (Berkeley & Broome) Saccardo, which grows on the ground under hawthorns, often in troops in summer and autumn, attached to old hardened hawthorn berries.
(ii) Agarics of Pastures and Meadows
(a) Agarics of rough and hill pastures
Hygrocybe pratensis (Fries) Donk Butter mushroom
Cap: width 20-80 mm. Stem: width 5-12 mm; length 30-70 mm.