Massee. — On the Fungus Flora of Neio Zealand. 341 



margin often more or less lobed, the extreme edge drooping 

 and held down by the gills, about 1 cm. across ; gills distant, 

 radiating from the persistently pale thickened point of attach- 

 ment of the fungus to its support, rather distant, broadest in 

 front, not usually connected by veins, becoming blackish ; 

 spores dingy, subglobose, 4-5 /a diameter. 



On small twigs and branches. New Zealand. Australia. 



In some of Drummond's specimens the pretty cockle-shell- 

 shaped pilei are crowded on the branches. There are fine 

 specimens from New Zealand in Berkeley's herbarium. Dis- 

 tinguished by the reddish pileus and very thin flexible flesh. 



32. Marasmius, Fries. 



Pileus regular, thin, tough and pliant ; gills pliant, somewhat 

 distant, variously attached or quite free, edge thm, entire, 

 often connected by transverse bars or veins ; stem central, 

 slender, cartilaginous or hoary, minucely velvety or 

 polished ; spores white. 



Marasmius, Fries, Epicr , p. 372. 



A very distinct genus, but distinguished more especially by 

 biological characters. Differing from Gollybia and Mycena, its 

 nearest allies, by not deliquescing at maturity, but drying 

 up, and again assuming the original form when moistened. 

 Many species have a smell resembling garlic. On the ground, 

 among dead leaves, some on branches, &c. 



112. Marasmius erythropus. Fries, Epicr., p. 378; Austr. 

 Fung., p. 83 ; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 2051. 



Pileus convex, then plane, glabrous, obtuse, hygrophanous, 

 pallid, disc darker, wrinkled or rugulose and almost white 

 when dry, about 2-5 cm. across; flesh thin, rather flexible; 

 gills almost free, broad, distant, soft and elastic, connected by 

 veins, whitish, margin quite entire; spores 8-10 x 5-6 yu,; 

 stem 5-10 cm. long, about 4 mm. thick, hollow, firm, tough, 

 round or becoming flattened more or less, blackish-red, 

 glabrous upwards and paler at first, rather pruinose when dry, 

 furnished with white strigose down near the base, inside wall 

 of the hollow stem downy. 



In woods, among fallen leaves ; rarely on trunks. New 

 Zealand. Australia, Europe, United States. 



Scattered or in small clusters. Eather closely resembling 

 Collybia acervata, but distinguished by the broad distant 

 gills. 



113. Marasmitcs caperahis, Berk., Flora N.Z., ii., p. 175* 

 Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 605. 



Entirely snow-white; pileus membranaceous, wrinkled 



