CLASSIFICATION OP A.GARK 



46. Marasmius cohoerens I r. Bi 



EpicrisiSj L836 38 l as Mycena I. 



Illustrations: Pries, [cones, PI. 80, Fig. I (as if ycena cohoen 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PL 25, Fig. I. 

 Atkinson, Mushrooms, Fig. L27, p. L33, L900. 



I l.iiil, Muslim B, Fig. L06, p. 111. 



PILEUS L-2.5 cm. broad, campanulate-expanded, obtuse, some 

 times ambonate, even, or striatulate when moist, soft-velvety, vina- 

 ceus-cinnamon to chestnut color, fading to alutaceus, margin ;it 

 Length repand-wavy. FLESH thin, concolor. GILLS adnate, 

 rounded behind or sinuate, seceding, moderately broad, ventrico 

 close in subdistant, pallid at first, sood colored, brown, brick red 

 in reddish-brown from the dark-colored, spiculate cystidia, some- 

 times intervenose. STEM 5-15 cm. long, t-6 mm. thick, elongated, 

 subequal, homy, tubular } even, glabrous and shining, sometimes ob- 

 scurely velvety from spicules, bay-brown to chestnut, pallid at di- 

 lated apex, base darker and densely floccose with interwoven hairs 

 which join the steins and attach them to substratum. SPORES 

 variable in size, 0-8.5x4-5 micr., oval-elliptical, smooth, white. Q5 B 

 TIDIA numerous over entire surface of gills, lanceolate-aciculate. 

 65-95x8-10 micr., reddish-brown. ODOR ''somewhat disagreeable." 

 (Ricken.) 



Caespitose and coherent, on the ground or much decayed wood. 

 in frondose woods. Throughout the state. July-September. Not 

 infrequent. 



The rigid, horny, dark stems, joined at base by a mass of white 

 mycelial threads, the numerous cystidia and the size, distinguish 

 this well-marked plant. Sometimes they -row singly. Collyh 

 lachnophylla Berk and Collybia spinulifera Pk. have hen shown by 

 Atkinson to be identical with it. It is often referred to as M 

 cohoerens. The surface of the pileua and of the stem are usually 

 covered by dark spicules like those of the gills, and the color o 

 of these parts varies in proportion to their abundance. Th< 

 spicules are microscopic in size. 



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47. Marasmius elongatipes Pk. 

 N. Y. State Mus. Rep. 26, 1874 (as M. longipes Pi 

 ■•IMLKI'S s; ]•_> ,,,,,,_ h r oad, convex, glabrous, finely 



