MARASMIEAE 



Fruit-body reviving in moisl weather, becoming shriveled when 

 dry; fleshy-leathery, tough or toughish, persistent, normally not 

 putrescent. Stem when present, continent with the pileus. Par- 

 tial veil or universal veil Lacking. 



Tlie species of this subfamily are well-marked by their ability to 

 cease growing and to shrivel up in dry weather, and by their rejuve 

 nescence and further developmenl when they become wel again. 

 The gills are never corky or woody and only slight lv fleshy, asuallv 

 arid and toughish. It is possible, however, to And forms which 

 approach Collybia, Mycena and Pleurotus and which represenl 

 connecting links between those genera and Marasmius. The follow- 

 ing genera are included: Trogia, Schizophyllum, Panus, Lentinus, 

 Marasniius. and Ilelioiuvces. 



Trogia Fr. 

 i After Trog, a Swiss botanist. | 



White-spored. Flesh toughish, arid, reviving in wel weather 

 (lills arid, fold like, obtuse. Pileus sessile, or resupinate-reflexed. 



Small, lignicolous, reviving plants, usually attached to dead 

 branches of frondose trees. Related to Cantherellus by the plicate, 

 i. e., fold-like gills, bu1 tougher and reviving, as in Schizophyllum. 

 The genus is placed under the Canthereleae by some authors bul the 

 persistent, reviving and arid characters ally it equally close to the 

 Marasmieae. The pileus is cither attached a1 a more or Less eccen- 

 trie point or resupinate for some distance and the gills are exposed 

 in moisl weather, bu1 the dried pileus usually infolds on the mat 

 so as to hide the gills which are mostly irregular or crisped. 



10. Trogia crispa Fr. 



Monographia, 1S33. 



illustrations : Cooke, 111.. PI. ill I. 



Gillet. Champignons de France, No. 708. 



Patouillard, Tab. Analyt, No. l l. 



Ricken, Biatterpilze, PI. 2, Fig. 5. 



Atkinson, Mushrooms. PI. 39, Fig. 131, op. p. 137. 19 



