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8. Marasmius proletarius Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 296. 
1868. 
Pileus gregarious, convex, 2 mm. broad; surface white, margin slightly sulcate, at first 
inflexed: lamellae plane or ventricose, broad, attached: stipe pallid, opaque, rigid, setiform, 
tomentose at the base, 12-18 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
HastiraT: On dead sticks. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
9. Marasmius inaequalis Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 297. 
1868. 
Pileus convex, 1-3 mm. broad; surface white, margin plicate: lamellae few, thick, obtuse, 
white: stipe elongate, with a white pellicle above, opaque and pale-yellow below, strigose at the 
base, 1-2 cm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
* Hasrrar: On dead sticks. : 
DistRIBuTION: Known only from the type locality. 
10. Marasmius subglobosus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 295. 
1868. 
Pileus hemispheric, 3 mm. broad; surface flavid: lamellae concolorous, broad, adnate: 
stipe glabrous, sulcate, 6 mm. long, dilated at the base. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
Hasitat: On sticks in woods. 
DisTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
11. Marasmius flavellus (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill. 
Agaricus (Omphalia) flavellus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 286, 1868, 
Pileus convex, umbonate, solitary or gregarious, 1 mm. broad; surface sulfur-colored,pallid 
when dry, glabrous, striate, margin entire, inflexed on drying: lamellae decurrent, few, distant: 
stipe capillary, soon glabrous, slightly dilated at the apex, pallid, slightly brownish on drying, 
0.5-1 cm. long, about’ 0.1 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba 
Hasirat: On sticks of woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba. 
12. Marasmius nanus Massee, Jour. Bot. 30: 161. 1892. 
Pileus convex to subexpanded, obtuse, gregarious, 2mm. broad; surface dry, tough, smooth, 
glabrous, brownish-cinnamon, margin entire, concolorous: lamellae adnate, distant, pallid: 
spores subglobose, smooth, hyaline, about 4 4: stipe short, enlarged above, pallid, smouth, 
glabrous, 2 mm. long, with conspicuous, white, strigose, radiating mycelium at the base. 
Type LocaLity: Morne Cochon, St. Vincent. 
Hasitat: On dead trunks. 
DIsTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
13. Marasmius guyanensis Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV.1:114. 1854. 
Pileus membranous, very thin, hemispheric, soon expanded; surface umbrinous, margin 
radiate-plicate, denticulate: lamellae pallid, scarcely reaching the stipe, very narrow, convex, 
attenuate at the ends, 8-12 in number: stipe glabrous, striatulate, floccose at the base, capillary. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Guiana. 
HasiraT: On dead leaves. 
DisTRIBUTION: Cuba; also in Guiana. 
InustTRarion: Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 1: pl. 11, f. 5. 
14. Marasmius Hiorami Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus membranous, hemispheric to convex, umbilicate, gregarious, 2-4 mm. broad: surface 
bay, glabrous, radiate-sulcate, appearing pulverulent under a lens, blackish and papillate at 
