WHITE-SPORED AGARICS. 



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what above, slightly enlarged below, and rooting. The color is the 

 same as that of the pileus or dark bay brown, and shining, and 

 seems to be due to large numbers of spicules similar to those on the 

 gills. The color 

 is paler below in 

 some cases, or 

 gradually darker 

 below in others. 

 The stems are 

 bound together 

 below by numer- 

 ous threads. 



Figure 1 30 is 

 from plants (No. 

 2373, C. U. her- 

 ba r ium) co 1- 

 lected in woods 

 near Freeville, 

 N . Y . The 

 plants have been 

 collected near 

 Ithaca on three 

 different occas- 

 ions, twice near 

 Freeville about 

 nine miles from 

 Ithaca, and once 

 in the woods at 

 Ithaca. It is 

 easily disting- 

 uished by its 

 color and the 

 presence of the 

 peculiar sete or 

 cystidia. 



Although the plant has been collected on several different occa- 

 sions in America, it does not seem to have been recognized under 

 this name until recently, save the record of it from Carolina by 

 de Schweinitz (Synop. fung. Car. No. 606, p. Si). 



FIGURE 130. Marasmius cohaerens (Fr.) Bres. (= Mycena cohaerens 

 Fr. - -- Collybia lachnophylla Berk. == C. spinulifera Pk.) Color 

 chestnut, light leather color, tawny or vinaceous cinnamon, darker 

 in center; stems dark, shining; gills leather color, or fulvous, or 

 wine color, brick red or bay, varying in different specimens (natural 

 size). Copyright. 



