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Decaying wood and vegetable mold. Alabama. December. 
Earle. 
The downy or pubescent stem is the distinguishing character 
of this species. 
MARASMIUS PLICATULUS. 
Pileus submembranous, convex or subcampanulate, glabrous, 
even when moist, commonly sulcate or striate when dry, dark 
vinous red inclining to bay brown; lamellae subdistant, narrowed 
behind, adnexed, whitish; stem slender, hollow, glabrous above, 
shining, blackish-brown, red at the top, radicating and clothed at 
the base with a copious dense whitish villosity or tomentum ; 
spores subelliptical, apiculate at one end, somewhat narrowed 
toward the other, .0004-.0005 in. long, .c002—.00025 broad. Pileus 
6-12 lines broad ; stem 2.5—5 in. long, about 1 line thick. 
Among fallen leaves and other decomposing vegetable matter. 
Common in Southern California. A. J. McClatchie. 
The colors of this plant are very similar to those of Marasmzus 
pulcherripes, but it is a much larger plant and differs in the attach- 
ment of its lamellae and in the character of the base of the stem. 
In the dried specimens the stem is striate and the pileus has a 
velvety appearance, but it is glabrous. 
I find that the name Marasmius badius, Bull. Torr. Club, 22: 
487, 1895, was preoccupied and I would substitute for it MaRas- 
MINUS BADICEPS. 
FLAMMULA EDULIS. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, obtuse, glabfous, moist, brown, grayish- 
brown or alutaceous-brown, sometimes rimose, flesh whitish ; 
lamellae rather broad, close, decurrent, bright tan color, becoming 
brownish-ferruginous ; stems caespitose, equal, stuffed or hollow, 
brown ; spores subelliptical, .0005 in. long, .0002~.00025 broad. 
Pileus 2-3 in. broad; stem 2-3 in. long, 3-6 lines thick. 
Grassy ground, along pavements, in gutters and by the 
side. of wooden frames of hotbeds. Haddonfield, New Jersey. 
October. C. McIlvaine. 
The collector of this species informs me that the flavor of the 
fresh plant is slightly bitter, but that this disappears in cooking 
and the fungus furnishes a very good and tender article of food. 
Successive crops continued to appear for a month. In the dried 
specimens the stem is striate. 
