Galerina vittiformis (Fr.) Singer 1950

Galerula hypni (Batsch) Murrill
Agaricus Hypni Batsch, Elench. Fung. Contin. 1: 117. 1786.
Agaricus hypnorum Schrank, Baier. Fl. 2: 605. 1789.
Agaricus bryorum Lasch, Linnaea 3: 416. 1828.
Galera hypnorum Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 105. 1872.
Galera bryorum Quel. Fl. Myc. Fr. 78. 1888.
Galera bryophila Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 54: 149. 1901.
Conocybe hypnorum Murrill, Mycologia 4: 75. 1912.
Conocybe bryorum Murrill, Mycologia 4: 247. 1912.
Pileus thin, membranous, subconic or campanulate, obtuse or papillate, 5-15 mm. broad;
surface glabrous, hygrophanous, watery-cinnamon or subochraceous and striatulate when
moist, becoming paler when dry, often fading to yellowish or buff, margin usually striate;
lamellae thin, broad, distant, adnate, ventricose, white or whitish, becoming ochraceous-
yellow, often whitish-floccose on the edges; spores ovoid, pointed, smooth, uniguttulate,
8-12 X 5-7 m; cystidia flask-shaped, 40-45 fi long, 8-10 p thick at the base; stipe slender,
flexuous, hollow, smooth or slightly silky-fibrillose, downy or pruinose at the apex, with a
white mycelioid tomentum at the base, whitish or pallid, varying to fuliginous, 2.5-5 cm. long,
about 1 mm. thick; veil slight, evanescent.
Type locality: Germany.
Habitat: Among mosses or grasses in shaded places.
Distribution: Throughout temperate North America, and in the mountains of Mexico and