Yellowleg Bonnet

Description:

Mycena is a large genus of small saprotrophic mushrooms that are rarely more than a few centimeters in width. They are characterized by a white spore print, a small conical or bell-shaped cap, and a thin fragile stem. Most are gray or brown, but a few species have brighter colors. Most have a translucent and striate cap, which rarely has an incurved margin. The gills are attached and usually have cystidia. Some species, like Mycena haematopus, exude a latex when the stem is broken, and many have the odor of bleach ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycena )

Habitat:

location: Europe edibility: Inedible fungus colour: White to cream, Yellow, Grey to beige normal size: Less than 5cm cap type: Conical or nearly so stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass), Mushroom slimy or sticky spore colour: White, cream or yellowish habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides Mycena epipterygia (Scop. ex Fr.) S.F. Gray, Dehnbarer Helmling Mycène des fougères Yellowleg Bonnet. Cap 1–2cm across, convex expanding to bell-shaped, fawn, especially at centre, with yellowish tinge, having a lined appearance when moist, margin often delicately toothed, covered with a viscid, easily removed skin. Stem 40–70 x 1–2mm, pale yellow and viscid. Flesh very thin. Taste mild, smell slight, not distinctive. Gills subdecurrent, pale pink, edge glutinous, can be removed by a needle when fresh. Cheilocystidia clavate covered with irregular knobbly sometimes branched processes. Spore print white to pale buff. Spores ellipsoid, amyloid, 8–10 x 4.5–5um. Habitat amongst grass or moss in woods or heaths. Season autumn. Common. Edible but not worthwhile -avoid. Found In Europe. (rogersmushroom)

Notes:

Apparently widely distributed in North America, Mycena epipterygia var. lignicola is one of the more easily recognized mushrooms in Mycena. It has a sticky, yellow-green to greenish yellow cap, and it grows gregariously from the well decayed deadwood of conifers. Only Mycena epipterygia var. epipterygia looks similar; it differs in its colors, which are usually less green, ranging from dull yellow to brownish yellow--and in its scattered to gregarious, terrestrial habitat ( mushroomexpert )