18 OTANIQUE. 



diamtre de pros d'un cinquantime de millimtre. La tramo do 

 l'hymnium ost composc de flocons rameux, foutrs. 



MARASMIUS, Fres. 



Hjrmenophorum cum stipie (corneo cartilagineove) con- 

 tiguum , sed heterogeneum , in tramam similarem Jlocco- 

 sam descendis. Hymenium tenue, aridum , ubique fer- 

 tile , valleculis similaribus contiguum , nunc in plicas, 

 nunc in lamellas crassas lentas demum subcoriaceas , 

 acie acuta, effiguratum. Sporidia subelliptica, alba. 



Fungi epiphyti , membranaceo-rarius carnoso-lenti , 

 persistentes {iiec putrescentes) exsiccati et irrigati revivis- 

 centes , marasmo tantum perituri. Pileus demum sulcatus 

 vel corrugatus. Lamella? postice obtusa? plus minus an- 

 nulato-connexa? , vix decurrentes . 



Agarici species, Auctt. 



Merulii species . AVither., Sowerb., Spreng. 



Marasmius , Fries, Gen. Hymen., p. 9. Epicr., I, p. 372. 



MARASMIS li IvTOCEPHALUS, Motltag . 



EOTANIQE (CRVPTOGAMIBJ , PL. XVII, flg. 4. 



M. pleo membranceo campanulato convexo crenato, 

 radiato-plicato rubro-sanguineo , stipite corneo setiformi 

 leevi umbrino , basi dilatata paluda ciffixo , lamellis atte- 

 nuato-adnexis paucis pallescentibus. 



Agaricus h&matocephalus , Montag., Ann. Se. nat., 

 T ser., Bot., tom. VIH, p. 369, ubi descript. et 

 Ciypt. Brasil, in eod. Diar., tom. XII, p. 49. 



Marasmius hcematocephalus , Fries, Epicr., I, p. 382. 



Hab. Ad folia delapsa in sylvis prope S. Marcos nsula? 

 Cuba? lectus et in Brasilia. 



