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AGARICACE^; Marasmius 



1408. M. Vaillantii Fr. (after Leon Vaillant, French botanist) a b c. 

 P. tough, arid, plicato-rugose, whitish or pale yellowish. 



St. stuffed, attenuate downwards, date-brown, paler or whitish 

 above, blackish below. G. adnate, subdecurrent, broad, 

 distant, white. 

 Odour none. On dead wood, fallen twigs, leaves. Sept.-Oct. x ijx^ in. 



1409. M. angulatus B. & Br. (from the angular folds of the pileus) a b. 

 P. plicato-angular, fuscous-whitish or yellowish ; mid. pale 



brownish. St. slightly enlarged above and below, base hairy, 

 rufescent-grey or white above, brown-black below. G. adnexed, 

 distant, whitish. 

 On grass, submerged rushes, roots, on sandhills. Aug. J X I X 3 V m - 



1410. M. languidus Fr. (from its weak substance ; languco, to be 



weak) a. 



P. slightly fleshy, umbilicate, flocculose, rugoso-sulcate, whitish, 

 light yellowish, or somewhat flesh-colour. St. stuffed, attenuate 

 downwards, naked, pallid to fuscous, white villous at base. 

 G. adnate to decurrent, veined, white. 

 Gregarious. Odour none. On dead grass, twigs. f X f X ^ in. 



1411. M. fcetidus Fr. (from its fetid odour) a b c. 



P. convex to flat, umbilicate, striato-plicate, bay-brown-tawny or 

 yellowish-sienna; mid. almost black. St. fistulose, attenuate 

 downwards, sometimes with a small floccose tubercle at base, 

 deep brown, almost black below. G. adnexed to subdecurrent, 

 distant, veined, yellowish-rufescent or salmon. Flesh claret- 

 brown, becoming pale. 



Odour strong of burnt flannel or horse-radish, very fetid. Dead twigs, 

 rotten branches, etc. ; rare. Aug. -Jan. i| x i X T V in. 



1411a. M. lagopinus Post ex Fr. (from the squamulose base of the 



stem ; Gr. lagopons, hare's foot) a. 



P. convex, then plane, even, glabrous, pallid. St. slender, equal, 

 whitish, upper half glabrous, lower half with white spreading 

 sq. G. adnate, slightly ventricose, straw-colour. 

 Gregarious. Dead branches. Oct. X X fa in. 



1412. M. amadelphus Fr. (from its nearness to 1413 ; Gr. an, 



together, adelphos, a brother) a c. Pale buff. 

 P. arid, convex to plane, umbilicate, striate; mid. darker. 



St. stuffed, equal, sometimes with an almost obsolete tubercle. 



G. adnato-decurrent, distant. 

 Gregarious. Odour none. Dead branches, twigs ; rare. Sept.-Dec. 



I X I X ^5 in. 



1413. M. ramealis Fr. (from its habitat ; ramus, a branch) a b c. 



P. arid, convex to plane, obtuse or depressed, white; mid. 

 rufescent. St. stuffed, whitish, rufescent at base, sometimes 

 with a small tubercle. G. adnate, subdistant, whitish. 



Densely gregarious. Odour none. Dead twigs, branches, burnt sticks, 

 juniper, willow, bramble ; common. May-Jan. X X T V in. 



