CLASSIFICATION OF AGARK 



Ehirope as a seasoning for tnutton roasts, for other mushrooms and 

 gravies. 



**&tem minutely velvety or pruino 



43. Marasmius foetidus I'r. 



Sysi. Mvc. L821. 



[llustrations : Cooke, [11., PL l L34. 



Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. ll_. 

 Hard, fiiushr* s, Pig. KM, p. L39, L908. 



"Pilens !-•"» cm. broad, pliant, convex then expanded and >n,i 

 bilicate, fulvous-bay color or rufescent, plioate-striate, pallid 

 alntacens when dry, margin incnrved. FLESH snbmembranacena 

 GILLS adnexed, joined in ;i collar behind, distant, rnfescenl or yel- 

 lowish, somewhal subdecurrent STEM 2-3 cm. lon<, r , 1-2 mm. thick. 

 tubular, chestnut -brown or paler, velvety -pruvnose, inserted by the 

 floccose base ob wood. ODOE rcnj disagreeable, but not of garlic 

 similar to M. performs." Spores 7-8x3.54 micr. (Pennington i. 



I have not seen this species within the borders of the state, but 

 do not doubt tli.it it occurs. It is not Eeliomyces foetans Pat., as 

 some think. It occurs on wood. fallen branches. He. The descrip- 

 tion is adapted from Bicken. 



44. Marasmius olneyi B. & C. 

 Ann. & Mag. N. II.. L859. 



PILEUS 1-1.5 cm. broad, pliant, convex, soon expanded plane and 

 depressed, glabrous, rufescent, striate when moist, at length radi 

 ately rugose, dull luster. FLESB membranous, concolor. 'ill 

 attached to a collar which secedes from stem, subdistant, narro 

 white, arid, edge somewhat crenulate. STEM 2 I cm. long, 1 mm. 

 thick, dilated at apex, tubular, even, whiU to pallid, minutely 

 pubescent-floccose, attenuated down/ward and inserted at b 

 SPORES narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, pointed at one end, 9-lla 



micr.. smooth, white. I >l M >K aone. 



On fallen leaves and twigs, in frondose woods of beech, maple. • 

 New Richmond; September. 



This and M. leptopus Pk. seem closely related, the latter difl 



