168 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



the stem, with a yellow tinge ; campaniilately convex, obtuse,, 

 sometimes slightly depressed, glabrous, even at first then 

 coarsely striate, tawny ; gills adnately decurrent, ^ line or 

 more broad, connected by veins, yellow ; stem 1 J-2 in. long^ 

 1 1 ne thick, slightly attenuated upwards, minutely floccu- 

 lose, bay, paler and powdery upwards, fistulose but con- 

 taining a pith; spores elliptical, 7 X 3"5 /x. 



Marasmiiis cauticinalis, Fries, Epicr., p. 383 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 350; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1134b. 



On pine leaves, &c. 



Distinguished by the yellow, slightly decurrent gills 

 connected by veins. 



Pileus 2-7 lines broad, convex at first and minutely umbo- 

 nate, then expanded, depressed, or umbilicate, whitish, with 

 small red-brown scales, disposed sometimes in zones, render- 

 ing;' the margin jagged ; in large specimens it is sulcate. 

 Gills distant with veiy few shorter ones, nearly free, 

 thickish, of a yellow tinge, various in breadth, sometimes- 

 rather rentricose. Stem f-li ii^- high, not J a line thick, 

 fiexuous, filiform, clothed with red-brown woolly tomentuni 

 or squamules, darker than the pileus, often perforating the 

 substance on which it grows, composed of fibres, with a 

 narrow fistulose line down the centre. (Berk.) 



B. Iiotula?. 

 * Stem glabrous, sltininj. 



Marasmius rotula. Fr. 



Pileus about J in. across, membranaceous ; slightly convex,, 

 umbilicate, plicate, entirely whitish or the disc darker; 

 gills few, broad, distant, joined behind to a collar that is- 

 <inite free from the stem ; stem 1-1 J in. long, very slender, 

 equal, horny, shining, quite glabrous, blackish ; spores pip- 

 ghaped, 6 X 3-4 /x. 



Marasmius rotula, Fries, Epicr., p. 385; Cke., Hdbk.^ 

 p. 351 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1129a. 



< ^n fallen twigs, &c. 



Kot to be confounded with any other of the smaller species 

 if" attention is paid to the collar connecting the gills behind 

 being quite free from the stem. 



