CLASSIFICATION OF AGAR! 



adnexed or almost free, very numerous, narrow, crowded, pare 

 whin-. STEM 3-7.5 cm. Long, 2-6 mm. thick, equal, hollow, reddish 

 brown clothed below and upwards by a whitish down or tomentum, 

 denser a1 base, sometimes absenl a1 apex. SPORES minute, ellip 

 deal, 5-6x3-4 micr. ODOR and TASTE o) garlic, persistent in the 

 mouth. 



''On damp shaded ground. July." 



Reported by Longyear. h is evidently related to U. prasiosm 

 from which ii differs markedly in the size of the spores and the 

 crowded, narrow, pure white gills. It approaches Richen's idea of 

 M. prasiosmus more closely than the preceding. I have not Been it. 



38. Marasmius varicosus l'r. 

 Epicrisis, 1836-38. 

 Illustration: Cooke. 111.. PI. 1121. 



PILEUS 1-2.5 cm. broad, pliant, campanulate then plane obtuse, 

 sometimes with shallow umbilicus, at first dark reddish-brown, ut- 

 most purplish, opaque, somewhat paler in age, radiately rugulose 

 striatulate, innately silky. FLESH concolor, slightly fleshy. 

 GILLS adnate-seeeding, sometimes sinuate-subdecurrent, very 

 rroirdcrf, roy narrow, whitish at the very first, soon stained dilute 

 reddish, finally darker, scarcely reaching margin of pileus. STEM 

 3-5 cm. long, 1-3 nun. thick, stuffed soon tubular, equal above, some- 

 what spongy-thickened at base, glabrous above or with slighl gray- 

 ish pubescence, towards base covered by spreading or strigost rut 

 fulvous hairs, dark blood-red within, attached by rooting hairs. 

 SPORES minute, narrowly ovale. 6-8x2.5-3 micr.. smooth, white. 

 ODOR none. TASTE slightly acrid or mild. 



Gregarious or solitary among fallen leaves and debris in frondi 

 woods. Ann Arbor. September, [nfrequent. 



Characterized by the dark reddish-umber to purplish pileus, the 

 crowded and narrow .uills and the ferruginous covering of the stem. 

 When wet the hairs at the base of stem are almost black, I' 

 moving the tomentum of the stem the darh red flesh is revealed 

 neath. Ricken combines this species with l/. fuscopurpurea Fi 

 but our plants certainly tit the old conception of fcf. vari* 

 must not be confused with the black species of Collybia : C atr 

 has broad gills; C. plexipes var. lacks the hairy covering on 

 stem; c. expallens has a farinaceus taste. The interior of the 



