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.
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, 12-13×7µ.
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.
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, 11-12×5-6µ.
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.
[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 or nearly so; striatulate nearly to the center when moist, more or less wavy and persistently striate on the margin when dry, minutely granulose or mealy when young, unpolished when mature, often with a few scattered floccose squamules when young, and sometimes with a few slight fragments of a veil adhering to the margin which appears as if finely notched by the projecting ends of the gills; watery-brown when moist, grayish-brown when dry, a little darker in the center; taste slight, odor faint, like that of decaying wood.