CLASSIFICATION OF AGARU 



52. Marasmius graminum Libert. 



Plant. <'!•> pt., L837. 



[Uustrations : Cooke, III., PL I L29. 

 Berkeley, Outlines, PL l I, Pig. 8. 

 Gillet, Champignons de Prance, Cifo. 143. 

 Ricken, Biatterpilze, PL 25, Pig. 9. 

 Patouillard, Tab. Analyt., No. 325. 



••|'l LEI rs minute. 2-4 mm, broad, nearly plane, ambonate, pale 

 rufous, sulcate, the furrows paler, umbo brown. GILLS few, sub- 

 \ entricose, cream-colored, intervenose, attached to a free collar. 

 STEM 2-4 cm. long, capillary, shining-black, apex white, entirely 

 naked." SPORES obovate, 5-6 micr. Long (Sacc.) ; lanceolate, L2-15 

 x3 l micr. (Ricken) (Scliroeter) ; globose, 34 micr. diam. (Massee) 

 i < Jooke). 



Gregarious, attached to grass-leaves. Southern Michigan. 



The description is adapted from Berkeley. Ricken and Schroeter 

 describe ii somewhat differently: "PILEUS brighl reddish-yellow 

 or brownish-orange, depressed and darker in center. (JILLS very 

 distant, all the same length, white or whitish. STEM entirely 

 brownish-black or whitish at apex, hair-like in form, tough and 

 hard." (Otherwise as above, but with long spores.) The very dif- 

 ferent sizes reported for the spores, show it to be as ye1 an uncer- 

 tainly understood species. I have no record of the spores. 



53. Marasmius androsaceus Fr. 



Syst. Myc, 1821. 



Illustrations: Cooke, III.. PL 1 L29. 



Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. I :■!!>. 

 Ricken, Biatterpilze, PL 25, Pig. 6. 

 Hard, Mushrooms, Fig. 103, p. 138, L908. 



PILEUS 6-12 nun. broad, at lirsi subhemispherical, Boon • 

 panded and depressed-umbilicate, reddish brown or with purpl 

 tint, sometimes whitish, distantly sulcate-striate or radiately 

 wrinkled, glabrous. FLESH membranaceus. GILLS adnate, thi 

 ish. tiixtaut, moderately broad, sometimes forked, flesh-coloi 

 rufescent. STEM 3-6 cm. long, capillary, tubular, tougfa and h 

 glabrous-shining, black, apex paler, equal or dilated a< apex, 



