eus is membranaceous, conic, campanulate, smooth, striate, watery
when moist, pale when dry, cinnamon.

The gills are attached to the stem, broad, rather distant,
cinnamon-colored, whitish on the edge.

The stem is slender, wavy, same color as the pileus, pruinose at the
apex. This plant is very like G. tenera, only much smaller, and of a
very different habitat. Found in mosses from June to October.

_Galera tenera. Schaeff._

THE SLENDER GALERA. EDIBLE.

[Illustration: _Photo by C. G. Lloyd._

Figure 223.--Galera tenera.]

Tenera is the feminine form of _tener_, slender, delicate.

The pileus is somewhat membranaceous, at first cone-shaped, partially
expanded, bell-shaped, hygrophanous, ochraceous when dry.

The gills are attached to the stem, crowded, rather broad, ascending,
cinnamon-brown, the edges whitish, sometimes slightly serrate.

The stem is straight, hollow, fragile, rather shining; three to four
inches long, equal or sometimes inclined to thicken downward, of nearly
the same color as the pileus. The spores are elliptical and a dark
rust-color, 12-13x7u.

You will frequently meet a variety whose cap and stem are quite
pubescent but whose other characteristics agree with G. tenera. Prof.
Peck calls it G. tenera var. pilosella.

Found in richly manured lawns and pastures. It is quite common. The
caps, only, are good.

_Galera lateritia. Fr._

THE BRICK-RED GALERA. EDIBLE.

Lateritia means made of brick, from _later_, a brick; so called because
the caps are brick-colored.

The pileus is somewhat membranaceous, cone-shaped, then bell-shaped,
obtuse, even, hygrophanous, rather pale yellow when wet, ochraceous when
dry.

The gills are almost free, adnexed to the top of the cone, linear, very
narrow, tawny or ferruginous.

The stem is three to four inches long, hollow, slightly tapering upward,
straight, fragile, white pruinose, whitish. Spores are elliptical,
11-12x5-6u.

This plant resembles G. ovalis, from which it can be distinguished by
its linear ascending gills and the absence of a veil.

Found on dung and in richly manured pastures, from July to frost.

_Galera Kellermani. Pk. sp. nov._

[Illustration: Figure 224.--Galera Kellermani. Showing young plants.]

[Illustration: Figure 225.--Galera Kellermani. Showing older plants.]

Kellermani is named in honor of Dr. W. A. Kellerman, Ohio State
University.

The pileus is very thin, subovate or subconic, soon becoming plane