A monograph on the genus Galerina Earle / by Alexander H. Smith and Rolf Singer.

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The Genus Galerina Earle

description is taken from Smith 18024. Veil remnants still show in the dried
specimens but do not show well in the photograph. The fruit bodies are unusually large. In Smith 49018 and 56818 the cap was viscid and no pilocystidia were found. These may represent a distinct taxon, but complete data
are lacking so we only mention the collections here. In the type one might
well question whether the pellicle was viscid; we may actually be confronted
here with one of these intermediate conditions which vary depending on
environmental circumstances. The species is actually most closely related
to G. heterocystis. Hesler 16381 has an exceptionally large number of abnormal spores.
MATERIAL EXAMINED: Cooke, W. B., 18967 (MICH). Hesler 10162;
16381 (TENN.); Peck type Galera semilanceata (Washington, coll. Yeomans);
type Galera bryophila (New York) (NYS). Sipe 940 (MICH). Smith 13383;
18024; 40446; 40632; 41064; 41163; 41164; 41207; 41209; 48169; 49018;
55381; 55638; 56818.
3. Galerina subceracea Smith & Singer, Mycologia 47: 559. 1955.
Illustrations: Fig. 4 (cheilocystidia).
Pileus 8-10 mm broad, broadly conic with a bent-in margin, surface
canescent but moist and hygrophanous beneath the canescence, pale "cinnamon" to nearly "ochraceous tawny", fading evenly to "pinkish buff',
opaque when moist, glistening when faded; flesh thin but firm and waxy
pale yellow, odor and taste none.
Lamellae distant, thick, broad, adnate to adnexed, pallid becoming
pale ochraceous-cinnamon, edges uneven.
Stipe 20-40 mm long, 1.5-2 mm thick, equal, hollow, fragile, near
pinkish buff over all or tinged cinnamon above, thinly coated with white
fibrils from a slight veil which scarcely leaves a zone.
Spores 8-10 X 5-5.5 u, obscurely inequilateral in side view, ovate in
face view, smooth or very faintly rough, very pale in Melzer's reagent, pale
yellow in water when fresh, ochraceous in KOH. Basidia 4-spored. Pleurocystidia none, but some basidioles with ochraceous content in KOH. Cheilocystidia 26-34 X 6-9 /, ventricose, with a narrow neck and subcapitate
apex, neck about 3 A, in diam. below the capitellum, a few merely with subacute apices. Gill trama fulvous in KOH. Pileus trama homogeneous, rusty
fulvous in KOH, epicutis only slightly differentiated; pilocystidia present
but more irregular in shape than the cheilocystidia. Clamp connections
absent.
HABIT, HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION: Scattered on moss in a swampy
area, Wilderness Park, Michigan, Oct. 7, 1953. (Smith 43847-type). Known
only from type locality.
OBSERVATIONS: The canescent, cinnamon colored pileus, and thick,
waxy, pallid gills, together with the presence of a veil, appear to distinguish this species. Observations on the spores must be made with excep