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EPPING FOREST
FUNGI OTHERWISE OF INTEREST
Amanita vaginata. On the ground everywhere. Cap at
first bell-shaped, then open and convex, rather viscid ;
mouse-gray, brown or sometimes white. Fragments
of membrane of the volva sticking to the cap. Margin
marked with close-set, fine, parallel lines. Stem six
inches long, white, without ring. Base standing in the
remains of a membrane—like sheath or volva.
Lepiota granulosa. A small species found amongst short
grass. Cap less than an inch across, convex, warm tan-
colour, covered with small powdery granules. Gills
white. Stem slender, coloured below and powdery.
Tricholoma saponacea. Gray-capped fungus smelling of
soap. Cap two to three inches in diameter, smooth and
dry. Stem three inches long, solid, sometimes scaly.
Monk Wood, High Beach, etc.
Tricholoma terrea. Mouse-gray fungus, many growing
together on naked ground. Cap two to three inches
across, clothed everywhere with closely-pressed hairs.
Stem rather short. Common over all the Forest.
Collybia radicata. Solitary. Cap from two inches in
diameter, soon flattened, pale brown, with radiating
ribs or veins. Gills very broad, and distant from each
other. Stem slender, rigid, very long, six inches or
more above the ground, and three inches of rooting
base, immersed in the soil. Common over the Forest
area.
Collybia butyracea. One of the commonest fungi in the
Forest. Cap two to three inches, with a broad hump in
the centre, dark when moist, pallid when dry, flesh thin.
Stem purplish, very hollow, easily flattened by the
fingers.
Collybia dryophila. Another very common species, with a
pale, flat, ochrey-white cap, from an inch in diameter,
with thin, narrow white gills. Stem slender as a straw,
reddish brown. Grows on dead leaves.
Mycena galericulata. Growing in dense tufts on stumps.
Cap conical, gray, hardly an inch across. Gills white
or tinged with pink. Stem rigid, smooth, darker than
the cap, four to six inches long.
Mycena sanguinolenta. One of half a dozen species which
contain milk in the stem. This small one with a cap
half an inch across and a long thready stem, is found
amongst dead leaves. When the stem is broken a drop
of blood-red milk oozes from the wound. High Beach,
Fairmead.
Nolanea pascua. A little dark gray fungus found commonly
in pastures, amongst short grass. The cap is obtusely
conical, one inch broad and high, with a silky appear-
ance. The gills are pink. Found at Loughton and on
Chingford plain.
Pholiota spectabilis. Is a splendid golden-coloured agaric,
which grows in small tufts out of rotten trunks. The
cap is three or four inches across, the flesh thick and
sulphur yellow. Thick stem four to six inches long,