Nyctalis 



AGARICACE^E 



299 



without cartilaginous bark. Gills fleshy, thick, juicy, obtuse at the 

 edge, distant, adnate. Spores elliptical, subglobose, colourless. 

 Reproduction is also effected by conidia borne on the pileus. 

 (Fig. 65.) 



Parasitic on the Agaricacece, gregarious and fasciculate. 



Species 1389, 1390 



1389. N. asterophora Fr. (from the minute stellate conidia borne 



on the pileus ; aster, a star, fero, to bear) a b c. 



P. hemispherical, floccoso-pulverulent, white to fawn. St. solid, 



equal, whitish to brownish. G. very shallow, thick, grey-white. 



Gregarious or subcrespitose. Parasitic on 229, 1306, 1307 and a few other 

 species of Agaricacece ; frequent. July-Nov. f x f X T 3 5 in. The stellate 

 conidia on the pileus have been named Hypomyces asterophorus. 



1390. N. parasitica Fr. (from its parasitic habit) a b c. 



P. conico-campanulate to expanded, obtuse or umbonate, pruinose, 

 whitish fuscous to pale, or whitish-grey with mid., faint sienna. 

 St. fistulose, slightly attenuate upwards, pubescent, white. G. 

 somewhat broad, thick, distant, very pale rose-brown. 



Gregarious or crespitose. Parasitic on 1306, 1307, 1311 and 1341 



common. 



Aug. -Nov. 1 x 1^ X J in. Often wholly lavender-steel colour. The 

 pileus produces large elliptical, smooth conidia. 



LII. MARASMIUS Fr. 



(From the habit, drying or shrivelling, not becoming putrid ; 

 Gr. maraiuo, to wither or shrivel.) 



Veil obsolete except in one non-British species — M. subannulatus 

 and a slight indication in the young of 1404. Hymenophore con- 



*? 



Fig. 66. — a, section of Marasmius peronatus Fr. One-half natural size, ^b, section of 

 M. epiphyllus Fr. ; c, ditto, M. SpodoleiiCUS B. & Br. Natural size. 



