392 FETCH : 



included specimens of these damaged examples in his gathering, 

 and these were separated as M. confusus. The type specimens 

 of all these, and the drawings of Marasmius ignobilis, are in 

 the Peradeniya herbarium, and the species has been found 

 recently on vseveral occasions. It is easy to ascertain, after the 

 herbarium specimens have been soaked, that Marasmius 

 confusus is not a resupinate species, as stated by Berkeley and 

 Broome, but a stalked species whose stalk has been broken off. 

 In describing Marasmius ignobilis, Berkeley and Broome 

 quote Thwaites' numbers 100 and 396 ; this is an error ; the 

 figure and specimen of 396 are Laschia puslulata, while the 

 figures and specimens of Marasmius ignobilis are labelled 100 

 and 397. Marasmius confusus is " 397 in part," and M. 

 subaurantiacus is " 100 and 397 in part." As the fungus is 

 pure white, the enforced adoption of the earhest name is most 

 unfortunate. 



The pileus is white, somewhat translucent, thin except over 

 the stalk, orbicular or circular, convex, or hemispherical, 

 radially sulcate, usually depressed over the stalk, up to 1*5 

 cm. diameter in the circular, central stalked forms, or up to 

 3 X 2"5 cms. in the orbicular excentric forms. The internal 

 tissue of the pileus absorbs moisture, and is subgelatinous 

 when moist. When grown on sticks piled up mider a bell 

 glass the specimens near the ground are translucent, while 

 those wliich develop from the sticks at the top of the pile are 

 dead white, but become translucent when moistened. AU the 

 latter examples have central stalks. 



The stalk is white, shining, translucent when moist, glab- 

 rous, somewhat pruinose when dry, inflated and tomentose at 

 the base, usually expanding also at the apex, stuffed, central 

 or excentric or almost lateral, from 1 to 3 cms. long, 0'5 to 

 1"5 mm. diameter, erect in the central-stemmed forms, but 

 strongly curved, often S- shaped, in the excentric forms, solitary 

 or arising in clusters from a swollen tubercle. 



The gills are numerous, broad (3 to 4 mm.), arcuate, some- 

 times ventricose, adnate, or shortly decurrent, white, much 

 crisped when old, sometimes forked, interstices veined, edge 

 thick when juoist, thin when dry. The hj^mcnial layer is 

 continued from gill to gill over the surface of the stalk, and 



