Galerina mycenoides (Fr.) Kühner 1935

Pholiota mycenoides (Fries) GiU. Champ. Fr. 432. 1876
Agaricus mycenoides Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 246. 1821.
Pileus 0.5-2 cm. broad, at first convex, at maturity plane, rather thin and membranous, rusty-brown when moist, buckthorn-brown to ochraceous-tawny in herbarium specimens, hygrophanous, drying first at the center and becoming ochraceous to deep-cream-colored, glabrous, widely striate on the margin and sometimes white-fibrillose from the cobwebby veil; context concolorous, with no odor and a mild or subfarinaceous taste; lamellae adnate or somewhat sinuate, and becoming nearly free, sometimes uncinate, medium-close or slightly distant, rusty-brown, 2-3 mm. broad; veil forming a conspicuous, nearly median, membranous annulus, often striate on the upper side; stipe central, equal or tapering upward, slender, pallid to brown, glabrous or nearly so, hollow, 4-10 cm. long, 1-3 mm, thick; spores ovoid or broadly ovoid, truncate at the apex, smooth, 9-11.5 X 6-7.5 m; cystidia none.
Type locality: Europe.
Habitat: Among mosses, especially Sphagnum, in swampy places. Distribution : Massachusetts and perhaps Michigan ; also in Europe,