CLASSIFICATION OF AGARII 



"PILEUS 2-6 tin. broad, convex-plane, obtuse, opaque, pliant, 

 l>;ilc reddish-brick color fading to alutaceus, ul length locum 

 margin striate at first, wrinkled when old. FLESH thin, leathi 

 membranaceus. GILLS adnexed seceding, rather thin, al ftrsl whh 

 ish then rufescent, close to subdistant. STEM 5 B cm. long, "_' I nun. 

 thick, fibrous-s1 iiffed, subequal, sometimes compressed, \\ iili a vil i 

 covering, yellowish then rufescent, toward base with yellow strig 

 hairs. SPORES oval, 6-8x3-5 micr., smooth, white. ODOB nun... 

 TASTE acrid." 



( Gregarious i>n the ground among leaves and sticks in frondose and 

 coniferous \\i>.h|>. Probably throughoul the state. July-October. 

 Infrequent. 



Tim description is adapted from Saccardo. This species seems 

 less common with us than M. urens. lis acrid taste, habit, ;in<l the 

 yellow hairs on the lower pari or base of stem are good charact 

 for its ^identification, lis si/.r corresponds to thai of Collybia 

 dryophila. The stem is s;iid sometimes to become hollow, h is 

 said i" be poisonous. 



28. Marasmius urens Fr. (Poisonous 



Epicrisis, 1S36-3S. 



Illustrations: Cooke, 111., PI. 1116. 



Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 148. 

 Berkeley, Outlines, PI. l I. Fig. 3. 

 Gibson, PI. 9, p. 111. 

 Plate Vll of ill is Report. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, at first convex, then almosl plane, obtuse 

 or subumbonate, reddish-brown to alutaceus, darker on center, al 

 ■first even, or length wrinkled, glabrous, opaque, pliant, margin at 

 first incurved. FLESH thin, toughish-membranaceus. GILLS l"- 

 coming free, at length remote, joined behind in places, thickish, 

 subintervenose, close, a1 firsl crowded, narrow, wliiii^li or pallid 

 thru tinged reddish. STEM t-8 cm. long, I :: mm. thick, equal 

 solid, terete, pale reddish-brown, paler above, almosl blackish at 

 base, covered throughout by a close, white puh I of 



cohering minute hairs, whitish within, attached by an oblique 

 strigose base. SPORES oblong-lanceolate, slightlj curved, 7-8.* 

 micr. CYSTIDIA none. ODOR none, TASTE acrid; 



Gregarious or scattered, on the ground in frondose w< 

 leaves, debris and grass. Ann Arbor. July-October. 



