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11. M. archyropus Fr. — Pileus 2.5 cent. (1 in.) broad, tan- Marasmins. 

 colour, becoming pale, slightly fleshy, convex then plane or 

 depressed, smooth. Stem very long, but scarcely 2 mm. (1 lin.) 



thick, stuffed then hollow, rigid, tense and straight, pallid 

 rufesce?it under the white tome?itose pruina which forms an 

 outer covering, similar at the base. Gills adnexed, separating, 

 crowded, linear, pallid. 



Inodorous. Fasciculato-caespitose. Analogous with M. terginus. The 

 covering of the stem is almost that of M. o?-eades. 



Among leaves. Rare. Bristol. 



Name — From the very tall stem. Fr. Hytn. Eur. p. 471. Berk. Out. p. 

 220. C. Hbk. n. 663. Go?in. & Rab. t. 8. f. 6. Ag. Pers. Myc. Eur. 3. p. 

 135- *. 25./. 4. 



12. M. torquescens Quel.— Pileus pallid, disc tawny, mem- 

 branaceous, thin, convexo-plane, rugoso-striate. Stem somewhat 

 filiform, delicately velvety, brown, smooth, and whitish at the 

 apex, twisted and sulcate when dry. Gills free, thin, ventricose, 

 distant, white or reddish. 



Among oak-leaves. Glamis, 1877. 



The gills are finely serrulated. In the very young plant, when the pileus is 

 conical, there is a slight indication of a veil. B. & Br. Na.me—torqueo, to 

 twist. From the twisted stem. QuU. p. 198. /. 22./". 3. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 

 471. B. dr 3 Br. n. 1678. 5. Mycol. Scot. n. 632. 



13. M. impudicus Fr. — Pileus 1-2.5 cent - (%-~ l in -) broad, 

 bay-brown-rufous, becoming pale when dry, slightly fleshy at 

 the disc, convex then plane, often depressed in the centre, soft; 

 membranaceous, striato-plicate, and paler from the circumference 

 to the middle. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 2 mm. (1 lin.) thick, 

 fistulose, equal, but broader in becoming compressed, rooting 

 at the attenuated base, tough, flexile; when moist rufous or 

 rufous-fuscous, sometimes violaceous-purple, naked, but wholly 

 covered over with white villous down (pruinato- velvety) when dry. 

 Gills at first reaching the stem, then free, truncate behind, con- 

 nected by veins, ventricose, at first crowded, then distant, whitish- 

 flesh-colour. 



Gregarious, odour strong, disgusting, of the same kind as that of M. fastens 

 or perforans, but very heavy. 



On and about pine-trunks. Hanham. Sept. 



Name — impudicus, disgusting. Of the odour. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 222. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 471. Br. Bath. Trans. 1870, p. 77. B. c^ Br. n. 1789. 

 C. Hbk. 71. 662 



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