North American species of Mycena.

EUMYCENA: TYPICAE

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characters at best. I have not seen fresh specimens of M. intertexta.
Kauffman made one collection, on spruce wood (North Elba, New
York), which he identified as a variety of M. haematopus. It may be
M. intertexta.
164. MYCENA INTERTEXTA (Berk. and Curt.) Saccardo
Syll. Fung., 14: 83. 1899
Agaricus (Mycena) intertextus Berkeley and Curtis, Ann. and Mag. Nat.
Hist., 3 (4): 286. 1859.
Prunulus intertextus Murrill, North Am. Flora, 9: 328. 1916.
Mycena avellanea Murrill, Mycologia, 8: 220. 1916.
Prunulus avellaneus Murrill, North Am. Flora, 9: 329. 1916.
Illustrations:
Text fig. 42, nos. 6-7 (p. 330).
Beardslee and Coker, Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 40, pl. 27.
"Densissime caespitosus; pileo hemispherico, umbonato, demum
expanso striato; stipitibus villo connatis, subfragilibus; lamellis distantibus, crassiusculis, adnatis. Curt. nos. 1741, 2557, 2558. On
pine, South Carolina, M. A. Curtis.
"Pileus 3-8 lines across, carnoso-membranaceous, convex, umbonate, then expanded, pellucid, fusco-cinereous, margin paler,
striate; stems 2 inches high, ~ a line thick, fistulose, smooth above
and fuscous, pale below and joined intimately together by matted
down; gills white, thick, adnate.
"A very beautiful and singular species."
This is the original description. The following account is quoted
from Coker, who has studied the species critically:
"Densely cespitose on rotting pine; cap 0.5-2.1 cm. broad, hemispheric or subexpanded, often somewhat umbonate, glabrous, not
viscid, pallid tan or deeper cinereous brown, the center often darker;
margin striate. Flesh thin, not very brittle; odor and taste slightly
musty.
"Gills subdistant, broadly adnate and mostly arcuate-decurrent
by a tooth, pallid tan, in age yellowish brown.
"Stem 2-8 cm. long, 1-1.5 mm. thick, glabrous, hollow, color of
the cap and gills, the bases joined by dense, tawny floccose fibers
which are very conspicuous where the stems run under the bark.
"Spores (of No. 2955) smooth, elliptic, 4-5.5 X 6.8-8.6 y. Basidia