106 EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS. 



may be carried loose without breaking. 

 Unlike the Champignon, it always grows 

 in woods and amongst dead leaves, and 

 never forms rings or parts of rings. 



Another species, Marasmius urens, is 

 always named with a caution, although 

 we believe the true species to be very 

 uncommon. It is a woodland species, and 

 we believe always so, growing in tufts, 

 the stem being downy to the top and 

 woolly at the base, cap and gills similar 

 to the preceding. Nearly all the specimens 

 which we have seen called by this name are 

 merely forms of M. peronatus, although 

 it is really quite different, more persistently 

 acrid, and csespitose. Both species should 

 be avoided, because, if innocuous, they 

 would be tough and indigestible. 



