CLASSIFICATION OF AGAR] 



34. Marasmius delectans Morg. 

 Jour, of Mvc, Vol. XI, L905. 



Illustration: Bard, Mushrooms, Pig. ill. p. L51, L908. 



PILEUS 1-2 tin. broad, pliant, convex-expanded, depressed or 

 subumbonate, glabrous, white or whitish, pale tan in age, rugulose 



striate. FLESH sulicoriaccous. GILLS adnexed, anequal, moder- 

 ately broad, subdistant, white, intervenose. STEM, ."■•"• cm. long, 

 1-1.5 mm. thick, slender, equal, even, hollow, cartilaginous-tough, 

 glabrous, slii>ii)i</, pure white above, darker downwards, i" dark 

 In-own below, mycelioid at base, mycelium forming wide, white mats 

 over the fallen Leaves where it grows. SPORES iiarrow elliptical, 

 7-9x3-4 micr., smooth, acuminate-apiculate, white. CYSTIDIA 

 rather abundant on sides, especially on edge of gills, Blender, Bpine- 

 like, 3645x3-5 micr. ODOR and TASTE mild. 



Among fallen leaves in mixed and frondose woods. Ann Arbor, 

 New Richmond. August- September. 



Easily known by the while, mycelioid mats which ii forms among 

 the leafy covering of the ground in woods, by the while color of the 

 cap and gills and apex of stem, and by its shilling stem. It is quite 

 frequeul during continued rainy weather. 



**Stem glabrous at apex onhj. 



35. Marasmius semihirtipes Pk. 



X. Y. State Mus. Rep. 25, 1873. 



Illustration: Conn. State Geol.- & Nat. Hist. Surv., Bull. L5, PI. 6. 



PILEUS 2-.°» cm. broad, pliant, tough, convex, soon plane, or de 

 pressed, glabrous, hygrophanous, even or rugulose, reddish brown 

 when moist, fading to pale alutaceus, disk darker. FLESH thin, 

 submembranaceus. GILLS adnexed-seceding, rather narrow, cl 

 to subdistant, whitish, somewhat intervenose, edge subfimbriate. 

 STEM 2-8 cm. long, 1-1.5 mm. thick, tough, subequal, tubular, some- 

 times compressed, Bubstriate, dark reddish-brown throughout, glab- 

 rous at apex, densely velvety-tomentose nearly to apex, tomentum 

 of same color. SPORES ovate curved-apiculate, 8-9x4-5 m 

 smooth, white. ODOR and TASTE mild. 



On the ground in frondose or mixed woods among leaves and 



