Carrifran - Mycena acicula and Hemimycena tortuosa

The orange mycenoid is M.acicula, the white H.tortuosa (dewdrop bonnet)

A few "dewdrops"

The tortuose caulicystidia that hold the droplets

Mycena speirea, Bark Bonnet, Cullaloe, 21/09/2015

Trooping on the prostate-but-alive mossy bark of an oak tree.

Cap: Bell-shaped, thin, striate
Stipe: downy
Gills: decurrent and without dark edge. Slightly paler than cap if anything
Spores: to c.8x4u still on basidium (no spore print), typical Mycenoid shape

in the field

base

 

hymenium

hymenium 2

pileus

 

stipe

stipe 2

Mycena sp.

from Blairadam Forest in Fife a tiny Mycena on a mossy tree. Never did get to the bottom of which, but microscopically a curious beast anyway

Hemimycena tortuosa

A nice little species that#s been popping up recently, first encountered at Vogrie just over a year ago. Has been given the lovely moniker of "Dewdrop bonnet". Below is the cracking corkscrew cystidia for which it is presumably named in its scientific name.