156 FUNGUS-FLOE A. 



Pileus ^1 in. broad, plane slightly depressed, dirty- white 

 with, a brownish shade, paler on the margin which, is 

 membranaceous, and regularly striate. Gills nearly free, 

 paler than the pileus, slightly connected by veins. Stem 

 '2-3 in. high, 2-3 lines thick, velvety, albido-pnlverulent, as 

 is at once evident even in dry specimens, rufescent, tomentose 

 below, pale above, fistulose, generally growing on the midrib 

 of the leaves. Odour like that of garlic, very powerful. 

 Specimens in Sowerby's Herbarium gathered July 31, 1796, 

 still retain their garlic scent. (Berk.) 



Marasmius oreades. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-1 1" in. across, flesh rather thin, tough; convex 

 then plane, somewhat umbonate, glabrous, brownish when 

 young, then tan, becoming pale ; gills free, 1^-2 lines broad, 

 -distant, whitish then pallid, pliant ; stem 1^2 in. long, 

 1^ line thick, equal, solid, whitish, everywhere covered with 

 closely interwoven down, base naked; spores elliptical, 



8 X 5 yU.. 



Marasmius oreades, Fries, Epicr., p. 375; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 345; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1118. 



In open pastures, forming rings. 



Smell weiik but pleasant, stronger when dry. Pileus 

 Tufescent, becoming pale, margin striate when moist. 

 (Fries.) 



Root little more than a minute tomentosity, stipes firm, 

 sSolid, brittle in very young plants, tough in old ones, 

 furnished with a kind of fibrous bark, tearing and twisting 

 longitudinally, about as thick as a goose-quill, flexuose or 

 orooked, of a pale whitish brown, sometimes farinose towards 

 the top, from whence it is gradually attenuated downwards. 

 In height it is much influenced by situation, varying from 

 2 to 5 in. Pileus 1-2 in. or more in breadth, hemispherical 

 .in the young state, then obtusely conical, finally plano- 

 convex, and most frequently umbonate, smooth, the margin 

 more or less waved, and turning up with age. The substance 

 is leathery, the flesh white, small in quantity. Colour a 

 Teddish opaque cream-colour in dry weather ; but in a moist 

 state a watery brown, darker in the centre, and somewhat 

 .fitriate at the margin. Lamellae distant, mostly four in a series, 

 rather thick and fleshy, free, yellowish-white, frequently 



